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EPHESIANS ยท Chapter 4
4:1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, plead to you that all of
you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith all of you are called,
4:2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing
one another in love;
4:3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the
bond of peace.
4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as all of you
are called in one hope of your calling;
4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
4:6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and
in you all.
4:7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure
of the gift of Christ.
4:8 Wherefore he says, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity
captive, and gave gifts unto men.
4:9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first
into the lower parts of the earth?
4:10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above
all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists;
and some, pastors and teachers;
4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry,
for the edifying of the body of Christ:
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 fullness of Christ:
4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed back and forth,
and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and
cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him
in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by
that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in
the measure of every part, makes increase of the body unto the edifying
of itself in love.
4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that all of you
henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
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:
4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness,
to work all uncleanness with greediness.
4:20 But all of you have not so learned Christ;
4:21 If so be that all of you have heard him, and have been taught
by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
4:22 That all of you put off concerning the former conversation the
old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
4:24 And that all of you put on the new man, which after God is created
in righteousness and true holiness.
4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour:
for we are members one of another.
4:26 Be all of you angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon
your wrath:
4:27 Neither give place to the devil.
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 needs.
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.
4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby all
of you are sealed unto the day of redemption.
4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil
speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
4:32 And be all of you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving
one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.
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