For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—

And He personally gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins

Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and by His vast strength.

For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.

Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens.

When you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed in Him, you were also sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her

Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord,

For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them.

And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless actions, but be filled by the Spirit:

We have redemption in Him through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

Therefore I, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received,

For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love

And He put everything under His feet and appointed Him as head over everything for the church,

Now to Him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us—

submitting to one another
in the fear of Christ.

So then you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household,

Fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Children, obey your parents as you would the Lord, because this is right.

For this reason I kneel before the Father

Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children.

Pray at all times in the Spirit with every prayer and request, and stay alert in this with all perseverance and intercession for all the saints.

By reading this you are able to understand my insight about the mystery of the Messiah.

And don’t grieve God’s Holy Spirit. You were sealed by Him for the day of redemption.

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope at your calling—

But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head—Christ.

that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us,

We have also received an inheritance in Him, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will,

No foul language is to come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.

So then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh—called “the uncircumcised” by those called “the circumcised,” which is done in the flesh by human hands.

Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the tactics of the Devil.

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise—

for the training of the saints in the work of ministry, to build up the body of Christ,

speaking to one another
in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,
singing and making music
from your heart to the Lord,

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts.

Take the helmet of salvation,
and the sword of the Spirit,
which is God’s word.

for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body.

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will:

To the faithful saints in Christ Jesus at Ephesus.

Therefore, do not become their partners.

so that we who had already put our hope in the Messiah might bring praise to His glory.

in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler who exercises authority over the lower heavens, the spirit now working in the disobedient.

Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger,

Since you put away lying, Speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

You took off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires;

Now grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of the Messiah’s gift.

Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them.

knowing that whatever good each one does, slave or free, he will receive this back from the Lord.

Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.

But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, would give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.

Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.

until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of God’s Son, growing into a mature man with a stature measured by Christ’s fullness.

diligently keeping the unity of the Spirit with the peace that binds us.

For He is our peace, who made both groups one and tore down the dividing wall of hostility. In His flesh,

one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

I pray that He may grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power in the inner man through His Spirit,

For this reason, I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light—

All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.

He demonstrated this power in the Messiah by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His right hand in the heavens—

This was not made known to people in other generations as it is now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit:

He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will,

This is why you must take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand.

And masters, treat your slaves the same way, without threatening them, because you know that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with Him.

This is why, since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

I pray that the perception of your mind may be enlightened so you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the glorious riches of His inheritance among the saints,

But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.

We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, accepting one another in love,

and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love,

Together with Christ Jesus He also raised us up and seated us in the heavens,

to the praise of His glorious grace that He favored us with in the Beloved.

made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!

The thief must no longer steal. Instead, he must do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.

you put on the new self, the one created according to God’s likeness in righteousness and purity of the truth.

For it says:

When He ascended on high,
He took prisoners into captivity;
He gave gifts to people.

And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.

and to shed light for all about the administration of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things.

For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.

which is His body, the fullness of the One who fills all things in every way.

But what does “He ascended” mean except that He descended to the lower parts of the earth?

At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

for the administration of the days of fulfillment—to bring everything together in the Messiah, both things in heaven and things on earth in Him.

For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh.

discerning what is pleasing to the Lord.

From Him the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building up itself in love by the proper working of each individual part.

Stand, therefore,

with truth like a belt around your waist,
righteousness like armor on your chest,

Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.

He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure that He planned in Him

The One who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.

This is so God’s multi-faceted wisdom may now be made known through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavens.

This grace was given to me—the least of all the saints—to proclaim to the Gentiles the incalculable riches of the Messiah,

For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

giving thanks always for everything
to God the Father
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

In every situation take the shield of faith,
and with it you will be able to extinguish
all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.

and what is the immeasurable greatness of His power to us who believe, according to the working of His vast strength.

Everything exposed by the light is made clear,

For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret.

This is according to His eternal purpose accomplished in the Messiah, Jesus our Lord.

He did this so that He might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross and put the hostility to death by it.

They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.

Tychicus, our dearly loved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will tell you all the news about me so that you may be informed.

Coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.

I am sending him to you for this very reason, to let you know how we are and to encourage your hearts.

When the Messiah came, He proclaimed the good news of peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.

Grace be with all who have undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.

assuming you heard about Him and were taught by Him, because the truth is in Jesus.

For this I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough in Him to speak as I should.

Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will from your heart.

Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.

Peace to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

so that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life in the land.

So then I ask you not to be discouraged over my afflictions on your behalf, for they are your glory.

for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said:

Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead,
and the Messiah will shine on you.

He did this to present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

He made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that He might create in Himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.

and to know the Messiah’s love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel.

making the most of the time, because the days are evil.

In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

not from works, so that no one can boast.

They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.

you are being renewed in the spirit of your minds;

so that in the coming ages He might display the immeasurable riches of His grace through His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

You also are being built together for God’s dwelling in the Spirit.

far above every ruler and authority, power and dominion, and every title given, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

Serve with a good attitude, as to the Lord and not to men,

He is the down payment of our inheritance, for the redemption of the possession, to the praise of His glory.

and don’t give the Devil an opportunity.

Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,

The Gentiles are coheirs, members of the same body, and partners of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

The mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have briefly written above.

you have heard, haven’t you, about the administration of God’s grace that He gave to me for you?

and your feet sandaled with readiness
for the gospel of peace.

I was made a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the working of His power.

But that is not how you learned about the Messiah,

In Him we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him.

may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love,

for the fruit of the light results in all goodness, righteousness, and truth—

This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.

I never stop giving thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers.

since we are members of His body.

The whole building, being put together by Him, grows into a holy sanctuary in the Lord.