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

For this reason, take up the full armor of God so that you may be able to stand your ground on the evil day, and having done everything, to stand.

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,

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God – a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature.

From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body grows in love.

For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.