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

in whom we have boldness and confident access to God because of Christ’s faithfulness.

from whom every family in heaven and on the earth is named.

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

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

Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.

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.

This was according to the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,

I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you in my prayers.

Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

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

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

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

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

so that through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

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

always giving thanks to God the Father for each other in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,