But you did not learn about Christ like this,

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.

For this reason I kneel before the Father,

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,

to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,

taking advantage of every opportunity, because the days are evil.

Grace be with all of those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,

so that through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

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

Stand firm therefore, by fastening the belt of truth around your waist, by putting on the breastplate of righteousness,

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,

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.

Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

and in all of this, by taking up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

And when you heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation) – when you believed in Christ – you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit,

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,