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1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles, 2 if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which was given to me for you, 3 that according to revelation was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief, 4 by which you may be able, when you read, to understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ; 5 which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit: 6 that the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, 7 of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God, which was given to me according to the energy of his power. 8 To me who am far the least of all the saints was this grace given, that I might preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 9 to enlighten all men as to what is the dispensation of the mystery that has been hid from the ages in God, who created all things; 10 that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly regions, through the church, the much-diversified wisdom of God, 11 according to the purpose of the ages, which he established in Christ Jesus our Lord, 12 in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through the faith of him. 13 Wherefore I beseech that you faint not in my afflictions for you, which are your glory. 14 For this cause I bow my knees to the Father, 15 from whom all the family in the heavens and on the earth is named, 16 that he may grant to you according to the riches of his glory, that with power you may receive strength, through the Spirit, into the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell, through faith, in your hearts, 18 that you, being rooted and founded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height, 19 and to know the love of Christ that passes knowledge, that you may be filled to* all the fulness of God. * That is, till you attain to the fulness of God. 20 Now to him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to him be glory in the church in Christ Jesus through all the generations of the age of ages: amen. Ephesians 4 1 I therefore the prisoner in the Lord beseech you, that you walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called; 2 with all lowliness of mind and meekness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love: 3 giving diligence to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 One body and one Spirit, even as you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism: 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 7 But to each one of us was given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8 Wherefore he says: Having ascended on high he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men. 9 But this: He ascended; what is it but that he also descended into the lower regions of the earth? 10 He that descended is the same that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. 11 And he gave some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, and teachers, 12 for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come into the oneness of the faith, and of the acknowledgment of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ; 14 that we be no longer children, tossed and carried about by every wind of teaching in the sleight of men, in craftiness used with a view to the art of deception: 15 but speaking truth in love may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ; 16 from whom all the body, fitly framed together and compacted through every joint of supply, according to the energy in the measure of each part, makes increase of the body for the building up of itself in love. 17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you walk no longer as the rest of the Gentiles also walk in the vanity of their mind, 18 being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart: 19 who, being past feeling, have delivered themselves up to lasciviousness for the working of all uncleanness in their greediness. 20 But you did not so learn Christ, 21 if indeed you heard him and in him were taught as the truth is in Jesus, 22 that you put off, according to the former behavior, the old man who is corrupt according to the deceitful desires; 23 but be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new man which, according to God, has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth. 25 Wherefore having put away what is false, speak truth each one with his neighbor; for we are members one of another. 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