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For this cause I Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, (Seeing ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God,

Of which I have been made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effectual working of his power.

And to let all men see, what is the fellowship of the mystery, which was hidden from the beginning of the world by God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

That the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in heavenly places,

that ye may be filled with all the fulness of God.

One God, and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in all.

Till we all come to the unity of the faith and knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, by the ignorance that is in them, through the hardness of their hearts:

And to put on the new man, which is created after God, in righteousness and true holiness.

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted; forgiving one another; as God also for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as beloved children: And walk in love,

as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God of a sweet-smelling savour.

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, or unclean person, or covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things the wrath of God cometh upon the sons of disobedience.

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Wherefore take to you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.