to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has taken us into favour in the Beloved:

In whom also we were taken as an inheritance, according to the purpose of him who energiseth all things according to the counsel of his will,

not as a result of [your] works [nor your attempts to keep the Law], so that no one will [be able to] boast or take credit in any way [for his salvation].

Take notice then that no longer are you strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household.

from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name [God—the first and ultimate Father].

if, as I take it, you have heard Him and in union with Him have been taught the truth as it is seen in Jesus,

[that] you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires,

lest the devil take hold of the opportunity.

All bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and outcry, and profane speaking, let it be taken away from you, with all baseness;

Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;

For, this, ye know, if ye take note - that no fornicator, or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

Do not participate in the worthless and unproductive deeds of darkness, but instead expose them [by exemplifying personal integrity, moral courage, and godly character];

Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;

And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;

And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

for we are members of his body, as if taken out of his flesh, and of his bones, as Eve was out of Adam's.

Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness;

besides all these, having taken the shield of faith with which ye will be able to quench all the inflamed darts of the wicked one.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: