Ephesians 4

1 Exhort therefore you I myself the prisoner in [the] Lord worthily to walk of the calling to which you were called,

2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

3 being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace,

4 one body and one Spirit even as also you were called into one hope of the calling of you;

5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

6 one God and Father of all, who [is] over all and through all [times] and in all (in you. *K(O)*)

7 One now to each of us has been given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

8 Therefore it says: Having ascended on high He led captive captivity, (and *ko*) he gave gifts to men.

9 And He ascended, what is [this] only except that also He descended (first *K*) into the lower regions of the earth?

10 The [One] having descended [the] same is also [one] having ascended above all the heavens, so that He may fill all things.

11 And He himself gave some indeed [to be] apostles, some however prophets, some however evangelists, some however shepherds and teachers,

12 toward the perfecting of the saints for [the] work of ministry, for [the] building up of the body of Christ;

13 until we may attain all to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a man a complete, to [the] measure of [the] stature of the fullness of Christ;

14 so that no longer we may be infants being tossed by waves and being carried about by every wind of teaching in the cunning of men in craftiness with a view to the scheming of deceit,

15 Speaking the truth however in love we may grow up into Him in all things who is the head, (*k*) Christ

16 from whom all the body being joined together and being held together through every ligament of [its] supply according to [the] working in [the] measure individual of each part the increase of the body makes for itself to [the] building up of itself in love.

17 This therefore I say and I testify in [the] Lord No longer [are] you to walk even as also the (rest of *K*) Gentiles are walking in [the] futility of the mind of them,

18 (darkened *N(k)O*) in the understanding being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance which is being in them, on account of the hardness of the heart of them;

19 who having cast off all feeling themselves they gave up to sensuality for [the] working of impurity all with greediness.

20 you yourselves however not this way learned Christ,

21 if indeed Him you have heard and in Him were taught, even as is [the] truth in Jesus,

22 Are to have put off you concerning the former way of life the old man which is being corrupted according to [its] desires of deceit,

23 to be renewed then in the spirit of the mind of you

24 and to have put on the new man according to God having been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

25 Therefore having put off falsehood do speak truth each one with the neighbour of him, because we are of one another members.

26 do be angry and yet not do sin; The sun not should set upon the anger of you;

27 (neither *N(k)O*) do give opportunity to the devil.

28 who is stealing no longer he should steal, rather however he should toil working with [their] own hands what [is] good, so that he may have [something] to impart to the [one] need having.

29 Any word unwholesome out of the mouth of you not should go forth but if any good for edification of the need, so that it shall give grace to those hearing.

30 And not do grieve the Spirit Holy of God in whom you were sealed for [the] day of redemption.

31 All bitterness and rage and anger and clamor and slander should be removed from you along with all malice.

32 do be now to one another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving each other even as also God in Christ forgave (you. *NK(O)*)