strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the inward man:
3:17. That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted
and founded in charity,
3:18. You may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the
breadth and length and height and depth,
3:19. To know also the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all
knowledge: that you may be filled unto all the fulness of God.
3:20. Now to him who is able to do all things more abundantly than we
desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us:
3:21. To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, unto all
generations, world without end. Amen.
Ephesians Chapter 4
He exhorts them to unity, to put on the new man, and to fly sin.
4:1. I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk
worthy of the vocation in which you are called:
4:2. With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one
another in charity.
4:3. Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4:4. One body and one Spirit: as 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 us all.
4:7. But to every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of
the giving of Christ.
4:8. Wherefore he saith: Ascending on high, he led captivity captive: he
gave gifts to men.
4:9. Now that he ascended, what is it, but because he also descended
first into the lower parts of the earth?
4:10. He that descended is the same also that ascended above all the
heavens: that he might fill all things.
4:11. And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some
evangelists, and other some pastors and doctors:
Gave some apostles--Until we all meet, etc... Here it is plainly
expressed, that Christ has left in his church a perpetual succession of
orthodox pastors and teachers, to preserve the faithful in unity and
truth.
4:12. For the perfecting of the saints, for the word of the ministry,
for the edifying of the body of Christ:
4:13. Until we all meet into the unity of faith and of the knowledge of
the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the
fulness of Christ:
4:14. That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro and
carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, by
cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive.
4:15. But doing the tru
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