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to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;

one God and Father of all, who [is] over all, and through all, and in you all,

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,

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,

and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

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

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

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,

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil,

because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand.

and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,

Peace to the brethren, and love, with faith, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

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

I give thanks to my God upon all the remembrance of you,