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For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them.

For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles—

if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you,

and to enlighten everyone about God's secret plan—a secret that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.

For this reason I ask you not to lose heart because of what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.

For this reason I kneel before the Father,

I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called,

to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,

Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor , for we are members of one another.

You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it may give grace to those who hear.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.

For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God's wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light—

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

For the things they do in secret are shameful even to mention.