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

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.

Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.

He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will –

that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.

He did this when he revealed to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,