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¹ I exhort you, therefore, I, the prisoner in the Lord, to walk in a manner worthy of the calling wherewith ye were called: -

² With all lowliness and meekness, with long suffering, bearing one with another in love,³ Giving diligence to keep - the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting-bond of peace, - ⁴ One body, and one spirit, even as ye were also called in one hope of your calling,⁵ One Lord, one faith, one immersion,⁶ One God and Father of all - who is over all, and through all, and in all.⁷ To each one of you, however, hath favour been given, according to the measure of the free-gift of the Christ;⁸ Wherefore he saith - Ascending on high, he took captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.⁹ Now this, He ascended; what is it, - save - that he also descended into the under parts of the earth?¹⁰ He that descended, he, it is who also ascended over-above all the heavens, 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 With a view to the fitting of the saints for the work of ministering, for an upbuilding of the body of the Christ;¹³ Until we all advance - into the oneness of the faith, and the personal knowledge of the Son of God, into a man of full-growth, into the measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;¹⁴ That we may, no longer, be infants - billow-tossed and shifted round with every wind of teaching, - in the craft of men, in knavery suited to the artifice of error;¹⁵ But, pursuing truth - may, in love, grow into him in all things, - who is the head, Christ, - ¹⁶ Out of whom all the body - fitly framing itself together, and connecting itself, through means of every joint of supply, by way of energising in the measure of each single part - secureth the growing of the body, unto an upbuilding of itself in love.

¹⁷ This, therefore, am I saying and protesting in the Lord: - that, no longer, ye walk even as, the nations, walk - in the vanity of their minds,¹⁸ Being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God - by reason of the ignorance that existeth within them, by reason of their hearts being turned into stone,¹⁹ Who, indeed, having become past feeling, have delivered, themselves, up, with wantonness, unto making a trade of all impurity with greed.²⁰ Ye, however, have, not thus, learned the Christ: - ²¹ If, at least, it is, him, ye have heard, and, in him, ye have been taught - even as truth is in Jesus, - ²² That ye were to strip off - as regardeth the former behaviour - the old man, who corrupteth himself according to his deceitful covetings,²³ And were to be getting young again in the spirit of your mind,²⁴ And were to put on the man of new mould, who, after God, hath been created in his truthful righteousness and loving kindness.²⁵ Wherefore, stripping off what is false, be speaking truth each one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;²⁶ Be ye angry, and not committing sin, let not the sun be going down upon your angry mood,²⁷ Neither be giving place unto the adversary;²⁸ Let, the stealer, no more, steal, but rather let him be toiling, - working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have wherewith to be giving away to him that hath need;²⁹ Let, no putrid discourse, out of your mouth, be going forth, but if anything is good - suited to the needful upbuilding, - that it may give benefit unto them that hear;³⁰ And be not grieving the Holy Spirit of God, wherewith ye have been sealed unto a day of redemption;³¹ All bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and outcry, and profane speaking, let it be taken away from you, with all baseness;³² And be ye gracious one to another, tenderly affectionate, in favour forgiving one another - even as, God also, in Christ, hath in favour forgiven you;