because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

namely, that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.

For this reason I ask you not to lose heart because of what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.

Now what is the meaning of “he ascended,” except that he also descended to the lower regions, namely, the earth?

He, the very one who descended, is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.

But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.

Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

But all things being exposed by the light are made evident.

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.

This mystery is great – but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

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

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

From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints [in Ephesus], the faithful in Christ Jesus.

For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them.

For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

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.

– since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened – so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,