Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us,

and did give himself for us,

an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted,
       forgiving one another,
              according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger,

and clamour, and evil-speaking,

be put away from you, with all malice,

and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God,
in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

 Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth,
       but what is good unto the needful building up,
              that it may give grace to the hearers;

whoso is stealing let him no more steal,

but rather let him labour,

working the thing that is good with the hands,

that he may have to impart to him having need.

be angry and do not sin;
let not the sun go down upon your wrath, 
neither give place to the devil;

Wherefore, putting away the lying,
      speak truth each with his neighbour,
            because we are members one of another;

and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

and to put on the new man, which, according to God,

was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

 ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man,
that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

and ye did not so learn the Christ,

     if so be ye did hear him,
          and in him were taught,

               as truth is in Jesus;

 who, having ceased to feel,

themselves did give up to the lasciviousness,

for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

being darkened in the understanding,
being alienated from the life of God,
because of the ignorance that is in them,
because of the hardness of their heart,

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord;
       ye are no more to walk,
               as also the other nations walk,
                       in the vanity of their mind,

from whom the whole body,

being fitly joined together and united,

through the supply of every joint,

according to the working in the measure of each single part,

the increase of the body doth make for the building up

of itself in love.

and, being true in love,
we may increase to Him [in] all things,
who is the head, the Christ;

that we may no more be babes,

     tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching,

          in the sleight of men, in craftiness,

               unto the artifice of leading astray,

till we may all come to the unity of the faith

and of the recognition of the Son of God,

to a perfect man, to a measure of stature

of the fulness of the Christ,

unto the perfecting of the saints,
for a work of ministration,
for a building up of the body of the Christ,

and He gave some [as] apostles,
      and some [as] prophets,
            and some [as] proclaimers of good news,
                  and some [as] shepherds and teachers,

 he who went down

is the same also who went up far above all the heavens,

that He may fill all things

and that, he went up, what is it
except that he also went down first
to the lower parts of the earth?

wherefore, he saith,
       `Having gone up on high he led captive captivity,
             and gave gifts to men,'

and to each one of you was given the grace,

according to the measure of the gift of Christ,

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

one God and Father of all,

who [is] over all, and through all, and in you all,