“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power.

so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

“that it may go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.”

and to enlighten everyone about God’s secret plan – a secret that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God – a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature.

For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called,

Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he captured captives; he gave gifts to men.”

This mystery is great – but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

it is not from works, so that no one can boast.

to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Do not give the devil an opportunity.

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,

Tychicus, my dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make everything known to you, so that you too may know about my circumstances, how I am doing.

toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ – the things in heaven and the things on earth.