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do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers:

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups one and broke down the dividing wall of the partition

for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—

if indeed you heard of the stewardship of God's grace which was given to me for you;

and to bring to light for all what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things;

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ,

from whom the whole body, being joined and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the properly measured working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

And they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for building up what is needed, so that it will give grace to those who hear.

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

and walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

For this you know with certainty, that no one sexually immoral or impure or greedy, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

for you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light

(for the fruit of that light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),