¹I myself therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the calling to which you were called,

²with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

³being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

⁴One body and one Spirit, even as also you were called into one hope of your calling;

⁵one Lord, one trust, one immersion,

⁶one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all times and in all in you.

⁷Now to each one of us the favor has been given according to the measure of the gift of the Anointed One.

⁸Therefore it says: When he had ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and he gave gifts to men.

⁹And that he ascended, what is this except that also he descended first into the lower regions of the land?

¹⁰The one who descended is the same one also having ascended above all the heavens, so that he may fill all things.

¹¹And he himself gave some indeed to be apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers,

¹²toward the perfecting of the holy ones for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of the Anointed One;

¹³until we all may attain to the unity of the trust and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a complete man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Anointed One;

¹⁴so that we may no longer be infants, tossed by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching in the cunning of men, in craftiness with a view to the scheming of deceit,

¹⁵but speaking the truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, the Anointed One,

¹⁶from whom all the body, being joined together and being held together through every ligament of its supply, according to the working in the measure of each individual part, makes for itself the increase of the body toward the building up of itself in love.

¹⁷This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, that you are no longer to walk even as also the rest of the nations walk, in the futility of their mind,

¹⁸darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the hardness of their heart;

¹⁹who, having cast off all feeling, gave themselves up to sensuality, for the working of all impurity with greediness.

²⁰But you yourselves did not learn the Anointed One this way,

²¹if indeed you have heard him and were taught in him, even as the truth is in Jesus,

²²that you are to put off, concerning the former way of life, the old man which is being corrupted according to its desires of deceit,

²³and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

²⁴and to have put on the new man, the one according to God, having been created in righteousness and the holiness of truth.

²⁵Therefore, when we had put off the falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbour, because we are members of one another.

²⁶Be angry and yet do not sin; do not let the sun set upon your anger;

²⁷neither give opportunity to the accuser.

²⁸The one who steals, let him steal no longer, but rather let him toil, working what is good with their own hands, so that he may have something to impart to the one having need.

²⁹Let any unwholesome word not go forth out of your mouth, but any good for edification of the need, so that it shall give favor to those who hear.

³⁰And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

³¹Let all bitterness and rage and anger and clamor and slander be removed from you, along with all malice.

³²Now be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, even as also God in the Anointed One forgave you.