Thomson(i)
1 I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the call with which you have been called,
2 with all humility and meekness; with long suffering, bearing with one another in love;
3 and endeavouring to preserve the unity of the spirit by the bond of peace;
4 to be one body and one spirit: as you have indeed been called to one hope of your call.
5 There is one Lord, one belief, one baptism,
6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in you all;
7 and to every one of us there hath been granted in due measure the favour of the free gift of the Christ.
8 Therefore it is said, "Having ascended on high, he hath led captivity captive, and "he hath given gifts to men."
9 Now this expression, "He ascended" what doth it infer, but that he had first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
10 He who descended is the same who ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all;
11 and he hath given some to be apostles, and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some pastors, and teachers,
12 for the fitting up of the saints; for the work of distribution; for the building up of the body of the Christ,
13 until we all come up to the unity of the belief and of the knowledge of the son of God; to perfect manhood to a measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;
14 that we may no longer be infants, tossed like waves, and whirled about by every wind of doctrine, by the cheating sleight of men, by a skill in the art of deceiving:
15 but that maintaining truth with love, we may grow up in all respects for him, who is the head, the Christ;
16 from whom the whole body being fitly framed together and cemented, provision is made by means of the supply of every joint, according to the proportionate operative power of every part, for an increase of the body; for building itself up in love.
17 This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, that you no more walk, as the rest of the nations do, in the vanity of their mind.
18 They having their understandings darkened, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the blindness of their heart,
19 have without remorse abandoned themselves to the commission of every uncleanness with inordinate desire.
20 But you have not thus learned the Christ;
21 inasmuch as you have heard him and been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus,
22 with respect to your former course of life, to put off the old man, which is corrupted by deceitful desires,
23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 and to put on the new man, which in a conformity to God is created in righteousness and the holiness of truth.
25 Wherefore, putting away all falsehood, speak truth, every one to his neighbour. Because we are members one of another,
26 are you excited to anger? Do not therefore sin. Let not the sun go down on your wrath,
27 nor give the devil an opportunity.
28 Let the stealer steal no more; but rather labour, and procure honestly with the work of his hands, that he may have wherewithal to relieve the needy.
29 Let no corrupt discourse proceed out of your mouth; nothing but what is good for edification, of such utility as to be a benefit to the hearers.
30 And grieve not the holy spirit of God by which you have been sealed for the day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and detraction, be banished from among you, with malice of every sort;
32 and be kind to one another, tenderly compassionate, forgiving one another. And as God hath in Christ forgiven you,