er of the Lord, beseech you, that ye walk worthy of
the vocation with which ye are called, (2)with all humility and
meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love;
(3)careful to preserve unity of spirit, in the bond of peace. (4)There
is one body, and one spirit, even as ye have been called to one hope of
your calling; (5)one Lord, one faith, one baptism, (6)one God, and
father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

(7)But to every one of us hath the grace been given, according to the
measure of the gift of Christ. (8)Wherefore the Scripture saith, "When
he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto
men[116]." (9)Now this, that he ascended, what does it imply? but that
he also first descended into the more internal parts of the earth?
(10)He that descended is the same also, who ascended above all the
heavens, that he might fill all things.

(11)And he himself appointed, some indeed apostles, and some prophets;
and others preachers of the Gospel; and others pastors and teachers;
(12)for the perfecting the saints, for the work of the ministry, for
the edification of the body of Christ: (13)until we all attain in the
unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a state
of complete manhood, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of
Christ: (14)that we should be no longer infants, floating on the waves,
and carried about with every wind of novel doctrine, by the juggling of
men, by their craftiness after the delusive wiles of error; (15)but,
speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is
the head, even Christ: (16)From whom the whole body nicely joined
together, and firmly connected by every joint of exact proportion,
according to the energy exerted in the measure of every several part,
causeth the increase of the body unto the edification of itself in
love.

(17)This then I urge and testify in the Lord, that ye walk no more as
the other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind, (18)darkened in
understanding; alienated from the life of God through the ignorance
which is in them; through the blindness of their hearts: (19)who
insensible to remorse, have delivered themselves over in
lasciviousness, to the practice of all impurity, with insatiable
avidity. (20)But ye have not so learned Christ; (21)if indeed ye have
heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
(22)that ye put off respecting your