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

that by revelation the divine secret was made known to me, as I wrote before briefly.

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

because you know that each person, whether slave or free, if he does something good, this will be rewarded by the Lord.

for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may be able to speak boldly as I ought to speak.

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

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

For the things they do in secret are shameful even to mention.

In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

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

Finally, be strengthened in the Lord and in the strength of his power.

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

Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh – who are called “uncircumcision” by the so-called “circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands –

that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

The one who steals must steal no longer; rather he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need.

You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it may give grace to those who hear.

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

And God put all things under Christ’s feet, and he gave him to the church as head over all things.

and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.