Obey with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord and not people,

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

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

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

Now this secret was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

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.

when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace,