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and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

if so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward;

whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;

to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,

and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

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

till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

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

and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

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

not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;