EPH-4:1  I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that

ye walk worthy

of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

EPH-4:2  With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering,

forbearing one

another in love;

EPH-4:3  Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the

bond of peace.

EPH-4:4  [There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are

called in one hope

of your calling;

EPH-4:5  One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

EPH-4:6  One God and Father of all, who [is] above all, and

through all, and in

you all.

EPH-4:7  But unto every one of us is given grace according to

the measure of

the gift of Christ.

EPH-4:8  Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led

captivity

captive, and gave gifts unto men.

EPH-4:9  (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also

descended first

into the lower parts of the earth?

EPH-4:10  He that descended is the same also that ascended up

far above all

heavens, that he might fill all things.)

EPH-4:11  And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and

some,

evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

EPH-4:12  For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the

ministry, for

the edifying of the body of Christ:

EPH-4:13  Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the

knowledge of

the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the

stature of the

fulness of Christ:

EPH-4:14  That we [henceforth] be no more children, tossed to

and fro, and

carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men,

 [and] cunning

craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

EPH-4:15  But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him

in all things,

which is the head, [even] Christ:

EPH-4:16  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and

compacted by that

which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working

in the measure

of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of

itself in love.

EPH-4:17  This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye

henceforth

walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

EPH-4:18  Having the understanding darkened, being alienated

from the life of

God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the

blindness of their

heart:

EPH-4:19  Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto

lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

EPH-4:20  But ye have not so learned Christ;

EPH-4:21  If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught

by him, as the

truth is in Jesus:

EPH-4:22  That ye put off concerning the former conversation the

old man, which

is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

EPH-4:23  And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

EPH-4:24  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is

created in

righteousness and true holiness.

EPH-4:25  Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth

with his

neighbour: for we are members one of another.

EPH-4:26  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon

your wrath:

EPH-4:27  Neither give place to the devil.

EPH-4:28  Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him

labour, working

with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to

give to him that

needeth.

EPH-4:29  Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth,

 but that

which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace

unto the

hearers.

EPH-4:30  And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are

sealed unto the

day of redemption.

EPH-4:31  Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour,

and evil

speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

EPH-4:32  And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted,

forgiving one another,

even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

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