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So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

in whom *ye* also are built together for a habitation of God in [the] Spirit.

(if indeed ye have heard of the administration of the grace of God which has been given to me towards you,

of which I am become minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me, according to the working of his power.

and to enlighten all [with the knowledge of] what is the administration of the mystery hidden throughout the ages in God, who has created all things,

in order that now to the principalities and authorities in the heavenlies might be made known through the assembly the all-various wisdom of God,

and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge; that ye may be filled [even] to all the fulness of God.

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

until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at [the] full-grown man, at [the] measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;

being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,

and [your] having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for [the] day of redemption.

and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children,

and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.

For this ye are [well] informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

giving thanks at all times for all things to him [who is] God and [the] Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

not with eye-service as men-pleasers; but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from [the] soul,

Put on the panoply of God, that ye may be able to stand against the artifices of the devil: