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

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

For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love.

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

But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

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

From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body grows in love.