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1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints being in Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the One having blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world for us to be holy and blameless before Him, in love 5 having predestined us for divine adoption as sons to Himself through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One, 7 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of trespasses, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He lavished upon us in all wisdom and understanding, 9 having made known to us the mystery of His will according to His pleasure, which He purposed in Him 10 for the administration of the fullness of the times, to bring together all things in Christ--the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth-- 11 in Him, in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of the One working all things according to the counsel of His will 12 for us, the ones having first trusted in Christ, to be to the praise of His glory, 13 in whom you also, having heard the word of truth, the gospel your of salvation, in whom also having believed you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory. 15 Because of this, I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus among you, and the love toward all the saints, 16 do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes your of heart being enlightened, in order for you to know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us believing according to the working of the power of His might, 20 which He worked in Christ, having raised Him out from the dead, and having set Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 above every principality and authority and power and dominion, and every name being named, not only in this age, but also in the one coming. 22 And He put all things under His feet and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of the One filling all in all. 2 And you, being dead in your trespasses and sins-- 2 in which once you walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom we all also once lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the things willed of the flesh and of its thoughts; and we were by nature children of wrath even as the rest. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 made us alive with Christ even we being dead in trespasses--by grace you are saved-- 6 and He raised us up together and seated us together in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. 11 Therefore remember that formerly you--the Gentiles in the flesh, the ones being called the uncircumcision by that being called the circumcision, made by hands in the flesh-- 12 that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, not having hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones once being far off, have become near by the blood of Christ. 14 For He Himself is our peace, having made both one and having broken down the barrier of the partition of hostility, 15 having annulled in His flesh the law of commandments in ordinances, so that He might create in Himself the two into one new man, making peace, 16 and He might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross, by it having slain the hostility. 17 And having come, He proclaimed the gospel: peace to you, the ones far off, and peace to those near. 18 For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. 19 So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but are fellow citizens of the saints and of the household of God, 20 having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is increasing into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit. 3 For reason of this, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles... 2 Surely you have heard of the administration of God's grace, having been given to me toward you, 3 that He made known to me the mystery by revelation, just as I have written before in brief, 4 which, by reading, you are able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, 5 which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as now it has been revealed in the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets, 6 that the Gentiles are joint-heirs, and a joint-body, and joint-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus, through the gospel, 7 of which I became servant according to the gift of God's grace, having been given to me according to the working of His power. 8 To me, the very least of all saints, was given this grace: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ 9 and to enlighten all what is the administration of the mystery having been hidden from the ages in God, the One having created all things, 10 so that now through the church the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, 11 according to the purpose of the ages, which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, 12 in whom we have boldness and access in confidence, by faith in Him. 13 Therefore I implore you not to lose heart at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. 14 ... for reason of this I bow my knees to the Father, 15 from whom every family in the heavens and on earth is named, 16 that He might give you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power by His Spirit in the inner man, 17 for Christ to dwell in your hearts through faith, being rooted and being founded in love, 18 so that you may be fully able, with all the saints, to comprehend what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ surpassing knowledge, so that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God. 20 Now to the One being able to do exceedingly above all things that we ask or think, according to the power working in us, 21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen. 4 Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the calling to which you were called, 2 with all humility and gentleness; with patience bearing with one another in love; 3 being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace; 4 one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called into one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 7 Now to each one of us grace has been given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8 Therefore it says: "Having ascended on high, He led captive captivity, and gave gifts to men." 9 Now what is "He ascended," except that He also descended into the lower regions of the earth? 10 The One having descended is also the same one having ascended above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things. 11 And He gave some indeed to be apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers, 12 toward the perfecting of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ, 13 until we all may attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a complete man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that no longer we might be infants, being tossed by waves and being carried about by every wind of teaching in the cunning, in the craftiness of men with a view to the scheming of deceit. 15 But speaking the truth in love, we should grow up in all things into Him who is the head, Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, being joined together and being held together by every ligament of its supply, according to the working in the measure of each individual part, the increase of the body makes for itself, to the building up of itself in love. 17 This therefore I say and testify in the Lord: You are no longer to walk as also the Gentiles are walking, in the futility of their mind, 18 being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance being in them on account of the hardness of their heart, 19 who, having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to sensuality for the working of all impurity, with greediness for more. 20 But you have not learned Christ this way, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him just as the truth is in Jesus. 22 You are to have put off, concerning the former way of life, the old man, which is being corrupted according to its desires of deceit, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and to have put on the new man, having been created according to God in righteousness and holiness of truth. 25 Therefore having put off falsehood, let each one speak truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another. 26 "Be angry, and yet do not sin." Let not the sun set upon your anger, 27 neither give opportunity to the devil. 28 The one stealing, let him steal no longer, but rather let him toil, working with the own hands what is good, so that he may have something to impart to the one having need. 29 Do not let any unwholesome word go forth out of your mouth, but only good, for edification of the need, so that it may give grace to those hearing. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, and rage, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be removed from you, along with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, as also in Christ God forgave you. 5 Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children, 2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God, into an aroma of a sweet smell. 3 But let sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness not even be named among you, as also is proper to saints, 4 and filthiness, and foolish talking, or crude joking, which are not fitting, but rather thanksgiving. 5 For this you know, realizing that any fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous man, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not be partakers with them. 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light-- 9 for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth-- 10 discerning what is well-pleasing to the Lord. 11 And do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to mention the things being done by them in secret. 13 But everything being exposed by the light is made visible, for everything becoming visible is light. 14 Therefore it says: "Awake you, the one sleeping, and rise up out from the dead, and Christ will shine upon you." 15 Therefore carefully take heed how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Because of this, do not be foolish, but understand what is the Lord's will, 18 and not to be drunk with wine in which is debauchery. Instead be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to each other in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father. 21 Be submitting yourselves to one another in reverence of Christ: 22 wives, to the own husbands as to the Lord; 23 for the husband is head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church, He Himself Savior of the body. 24 But even as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to the own husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love the wives just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water by the word, 27 so that He might present to Himself the church in glory, not having spot or wrinkle or any of the such things, but that it would be holy and blameless. 28 So also husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. The one loving his wife loves himself. 29 For no one at any time hated his flesh. But he nourishes and cherishes it just as Christ also does the church. 30 For we are members of His body. 31 "Because of this, a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will be into one flesh." 32 This mystery is great; but I speak as to Christ and as to the church. 33 However, you also, every individual, let each so love his wife as himself; and the wife, that she may respect the husband. 6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 "Honor your Father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise, 3 "that it may be well with you and you will be long-lived upon the earth." 4 And fathers, do not provoke your children, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord. 5 Slaves, obey the earthly masters with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your heart as to Christ, 6 not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 rendering service with good will as to the Lord and not to men, 8 knowing that each one, whatever good he might have done, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is slave or free. 9 And masters do the same things toward them, giving up threatening, knowing that also their master and yours is in the heavens, and there is no partiality with Him. 10 Henceforth be empowered in the Lord and in the strength of His might. 11 Put on the complete armor of God, for you to be able to stand against the schemes of the devil, 12 because to us the wrestling is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Because of this, take up the complete armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all things, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod the feet with the readiness of the gospel of peace; 16 besides all, having taken up the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, 18 through all prayer and supplication, praying in the Spirit in every season and unto this very thing, watching with all perseverance and supplication for all saints, 19 and also for me, that in the opening of my mouth, divine utterance may be given to me to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may be bold, as it behooves me to speak. 21 And that you also may know the things concerning me, what I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things, 22 whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know the things concerning us, and he may encourage your hearts. 23 Peace to the brothers and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all those loving our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruptibility.