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

to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

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.

that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.

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

to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

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

for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth –

With every prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and to this end be alert, with all perseverance and requests for all the saints.