Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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.

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.

in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

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

So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light –

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

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,

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

But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will –

For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

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

Grace be with all of those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

Pray for me also, that I may be given the message when I begin to speak – that I may confidently make known the mystery of the gospel,

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.

so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, would be to the praise of his glory.

But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.