Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children

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

if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you,

and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image – in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth.

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

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

So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

Peace to the brothers and sisters, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.

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

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.

always giving thanks to God the Father for each other in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

in whom we have boldness and confident access to God because of Christ’s faithfulness.

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;

who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.