Exhort therefore you I, the prisoner in [the] Lord, worthily to walk of the calling to which you were called,

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace;

one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called into one hope of the calling of you;

one Lord, one faith, one baptism;

one God and Father of all, who [is] over all and through all [times] and in all.

One now to each of us has been given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Therefore it says: Having ascended on high, He led captive captivity, [and] gave gifts to men.”

The [One] having descended, [the] same is also [one] having ascended above all the heavens, so that He may fill all things.

And He gave some indeed [to be] apostles, some however prophets, some however evangelists, some however shepherds and teachers,

toward the perfecting of the saints, for [the] work of ministry, for [the] building up of the body of Christ,

until we may attain all to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a man a complete, to [the] measure of [the] stature of the fullness of Christ,

so that no longer we may be infants, being tossed by waves and being carried about by every wind of teaching, in the cunning of men in craftiness, with a view to the scheming of deceit.

Speaking the truth however in love, we may grow up into Him in all things who is the head, Christ,

from whom all the body, being joined together and being held together by every ligament of [its] supply, according to [the] working in [the] measure individual of each part, the increase of the body makes for itself to [the] building up of itself in love.

This therefore I say and testify in [the] Lord: No longer [are] you to walk as also the Gentiles are walking, in [the] futility of the mind of them,

darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance which is being in them, on account of the hardness of the heart of them,

who having cast off all feeling, themselves gave up to sensuality, for [the] working of impurity, all with greediness.

you however not this way learned Christ,

if indeed Him you have heard and in Him were taught, just as is [the] truth in Jesus.

Are to have put off you, concerning the former way of life, the old man, which is being corrupted, according to [its] desires of deceit,

to be renewed then in the spirit of the mind of you,

and to have put on the new man, according to God having been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Therefore having put off falsehood, do speak truth each one with the neighbor of him, because we are of one another members.

do be angry, and yet not do sin.” The sun not should set upon the anger of you;

neither do give opportunity to the devil.

who is stealing, no longer he should steal; rather however he should toil, working with [their] own hands what [is] good, so that he may have [something] to impart to the [one] need having.