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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared in advance that we should walk in them.

For he is our peace, who made both one, and in his flesh broke down the middle wall of partition, the enmity.

which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

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

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;

Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his own hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that has need.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loves his own wife loves himself:

for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the church;

because we are members of his body.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

Nevertheless, let each one of you also love his own wife even as himself; but the wife should fear her husband.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

because to you it has been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:

each of you not looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

who, existing in the form of God, did not consider making full use of his equality with God,

for it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

because for the work of Christ he came near to death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your ministry toward me.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, [that it may be] conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things to himself.