Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called;

This I say, therefore, and appeal to you solemnly in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the other Gentiles walk, in the error of their minds,

Be you, therefore, imitators of God, as beloved children;

Therefore, be not partakers with them.

Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand them in the evil day, and having overcome them all, to stand firm.

Stand, therefore, having your loins girded about with truth, and wearing the breastplate of righteousness,