1 I, THE prisoner in the Lord, exhort you, therefore, to walk worthy of the calling with which ye were called,
2 with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;
3 endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;
5 one Lord, one faith, one immersion,
6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.
7 But to each one of us the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
8 Wherefore he says: When he ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men.
9 Now this, he ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?
10 The one who descended, he is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, that he may fill all things.
11 And he gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors and teachers;
12 for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ;
13 till we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
14 that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, by cunning craftiness after the wily manner of error;
15 but holding the truth, may in love grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ;
16 from whom all the body, fitly framed together and compacted by means of every joint of the supply, according to the working in the measure of each single part, effects the increase of the body to the upbuilding of itself in love.
17 This therefore I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in then, because of the hardness of their heart;
19 who, as being past feeling, gave themselves up to wantonness, to work all uncleanness in greediness.
20 But ye did not so learn Christ,
21 if indeed ye heard him, and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus;
22 that ye put off, as concerns your former deportment, the old man who is corrupted according to the lusts of deceit,
23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
24 and put on the new man, who was created after God in the righteousness and holiness of the truth.
25 Wherefore, having put away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor; because we are members one of another.
26 Be angry and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,
27 neither give place to the Devil.
28 Let him that stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have to impart to him that has need.
29 Let no corrupt discourse proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice;
32 and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as also God in Christ forgave you.
