I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you therefore to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called,

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind,

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children,

Be not ye therefore fellow-partakers with them;

See therefore how ye walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise,

Stand therefore, having girt about your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,