1I exhort you, therefore, I, the prisoner in the Lord, to walk in a manner worthy of the calling wherewith ye were called: 2With all lowliness and meekness, with long suffering, bearing one with another in love, 3Giving diligence to keepthe oneness of the Spirit in the uniting-bond of peace, 4One body, and one spirit, even as ye were also called in one hope of your calling, 5One Lord, one faith, one immersion, 6One God and Father of allwho is over all, and through all, and in all. 7To each one of you, however, hath favour been given, according to the measure of the free-gift of the Christ; 8Wherefore he saithAscending on high, he took captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. 9Now this, He ascended; what is it,savethat he also descended into the under parts of the earth? 10He that descended, he, it is who also ascended over-above all the heavens, that he might fill all things; 11And, he, gavesome, indeed, to be apostles, and some, prophets, and some, evangelists, and some, shepherds and teachers, 12With a view to the fitting of the saints for the work of ministering, for an upbuilding of the body of the Christ; 13Until we all advanceinto 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; 14That we may, no longer, be infantsbillow-tossed and shifted round with every wind of teaching,in the craft of men, in knavery suited to the artifice of error; 15But, pursuing truthmay, in love, grow into him in all things,who is the head, Christ, 16Out of whom all the bodyfitly framing itself together, and connecting itself, through means of every joint of supply, by way of energising in the measure of each single partsecureth the growing of the body, unto an upbuilding of itself in love. 17This, therefore, am I saying and protesting in the Lord:that, no longer, ye walk even as, the nations, walkin the vanity of their minds, 18Being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of Godby reason of the ignorance that existeth within them, by reason of their hearts being turned into stone, 19Who, indeed, having become past feeling, have delivered, themselves, up, with wantonness, unto making a trade of all impurity with greed. 20Ye, however, have, not thus, learned the Christ: 21If, at least, it is, him, ye have heard, and, in him, ye have been taughteven as truth is in Jesus, 22That ye were to strip offas regardeth the former behaviourthe old man, who corrupteth himself according to his deceitful covetings, 23And were to be getting young again in the spirit of your mind, 24And were to put on the man of new mould, who, after God, hath been created in his truthful righteousness and loving kindness. 25Wherefore, stripping off what is false, be speaking truth each one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another; 26Be ye angry, and not committing sin, let not the sun be going down upon your angry mood, 27Neither be giving place unto the adversary; 28Let, the stealer, no more, steal, but rather let him be toiling,working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have to be giving away to him that hath need; 29Let, no putrid discourse, out of your mouth, be going forth, but if anything is goodsuited to the needful upbuilding,that it may give benefit unto them that hear; 30And be not grieving the Holy Spirit of God, wherewith ye have been sealed unto a day of redemption; 31All bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and outcry, and profane speaking, let it be taken away from you, with all baseness; 32And be ye gracious one to another, tenderly affectionate, in favour forgiving one anothereven as, God also, in Christ, hath in favour forgiven you;