for we are members of his body.

And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God – a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature.

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,

They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles –

I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power.

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,

because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body.

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

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.

who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you,

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

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