Ephesians 4
1I, THE prisoner in the Lord, exhort you, therefore, to walk worthy of the calling with which ye were called,
2with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;
3endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4There is one body, and one Spirit, as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;
5one Lord, one faith, one immersion,
6one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.
7But to each one of us the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
8Wherefore he says: When he ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men.
9Now this, he ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?
10The one who descended, he is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, that he may fill all things.
11And he gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors and teachers;
12for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ;
13till we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
14that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, by cunning craftiness after the wily manner of error;
15but holding the truth, may in love grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ;
16from whom all the body, fitly framed together and compacted by means of every joint of the supply, according to the working in the measure of each single part, effects the increase of the body to the upbuilding of itself in love.
17This therefore I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk[4:17], in the vanity of their mind,
18having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in then, because of the hardness of their heart;
19who, as being past feeling, gave themselves up to wantonness, to work all uncleanness in greediness[4:19].
20But ye did not so learn Christ,
21if indeed ye heard him, and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus;
22that ye put off, as concerns your former deportment, the old man who is corrupted according to the lusts of deceit,
23and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
24and put on the new man, who was created after God in the righteousness and holiness of the truth.
25Wherefore, having put away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor; because we are members one of another.
26Be angry and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,
27neither give place to the Devil.
28Let him that stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have to impart to him that has need.
29Let no corrupt discourse proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
30And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.
31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice;
32and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as also God in Christ forgave you.