I exhort you therefore, I the prisoner in [the] Lord, that ye walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,
with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,
using diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace:
one body and one Spirit, even as ye were also called in one hope of your calling;
one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
one God and Father of all, that [is] over all, and through all, and in us all.
But to each one of us was given grace according to the measure of the gift of the Christ.
Wherefore he saith, Having ascended on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men.
Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower [parts] of the earth?
He that descended, he it is also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.
And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
for the perfecting of the saints, unto work of ministry, unto edifying of the body of the Christ,
until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, at a full-grown man, at [the] measure of [the] stature of the fullness of the Christ;
that we may no longer be babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of doctrine in the sleight of men, in craftiness for the scheming of error,
but, holding the truth in love, let us grow up unto him in all things, who is the head, Christ,
from whom all the body, being fitted together and compacted by every joint of supply, according to [the] working in [the] measure of each one part, worketh the increase of the body for edifying of itself in love.
This then I say and testify in [the] Lord that ye should no longer walk even as also the rest of the nations walk in vanity of their mind,
being darkened in the understanding, estranged from the life of God on account of the ignorance that is in them, on account of the hardening of their heart,
who, as being past remorse, have given themselves up to lasciviousness unto [the] working of every uncleanness with greediness.
But ye have not thus learnt the Christ,
if indeed ye have heard him and been taught in him even as [the] truth is in Jesus,
that ye should put off, according to your former conversation, the old man that is corrupt according to the lusts of deceit,
and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
and put on the new man, that according to God was created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
Wherefore having put off falsehood, speak truth each with his neighbour, for we are members one of another.
Be angry and sin not: let not the sun set upon your wrath,
nor yet give room for the devil.
Let him that stealeth steal no longer but rather labour, working what is good with his own hands, that he may have to distribute to him that hath need.
Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but if [there be] anyone good for edification of the need, that it may give grace to those that hear.
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God by whom ye were sealed for redemption-day.
Let all bitterness and passion and wrath and clamour and evil-speaking be removed from you with all malice;
and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ hath forgiven you.