over all and through all and in
all. [4:7]And to each one of us is given grace according to the measure
of the gift of Christ.

2 [4:8]Wherefore he says, When he ascended on high, he took captivity
captive, and gave gifts to men. [4:9]But this, that he ascended, what
is it but that he first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
[4:10]He that descended is the same also that ascended above all
heavens, that he might fill all [places]. [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 edification of the body of Christ, [4:13]till we all
come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of
Christ, [4:14] that we may be no longer children, driven about like
waves and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the art of men,
and the craftiness of deceitful wiles, [4:15]but speaking the truth
with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ;
[4:16]by whom all the body being joined together and compacted by the
supply of every joint, according to the proportionate operation of
every part, makes increase of the body to the edification of itself in
love.

3 [4:17]This I say then and testify in the Lord, that you no longer
walk as the other gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds,
[4:18]with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of
God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the
hardness of their hearts, [4:19] who being without feeling have given
themselves up to lewdness, to commit every impurity with greediness.
[4:20]But you have not so learned Christ, [4:21]if you have indeed
heard him, and been instructed by him as the truth is in Jesus,
[4:22]that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man
destroyed by deceitful desires, [4:23]and be renewed in the spirit of
your minds, [4:24] and put on the new man, created after God in
righteousness and true holiness.

4 [4:25]Wherefore, laying aside lying let every one speak the truth to
his neighbor, for we are members one of another. [4:26]Be angry and
sin not; let not the sun go down on your wrath, [4:27]neither give
place to the devil. [4:28]Let him that has stolen steal no more, but
rather let him labor, doing that which is good with his hands, that he
may have to give to him t