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

I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called,

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling,

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

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

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

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

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

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

toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ – the things in heaven and the things on earth.

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,

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

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 –

The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.

I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

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.

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart as to 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.