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1 I therfore, a prisoner in the Lorde, exhorte you, that ye walke worthy of the vocatio wherewith ye are called, 2 With all lowlynesse & mekenesse, with long sufferyng, forbearyng one another in loue. 3 Endeuoryng to kepe the vnitie of the spirite in the bonde of peace: 4 One body and one spirite, euen as ye are called in one hope of your calling. 5 One Lorde, one fayth, one baptisme. 6 One God, and father of all, whiche is aboue all, and through all, and in you all. 7 But vnto euery one of vs, is geuen grace, accordyng to the measure of the gyft of Christe. 8 Wherfore he saith: When he went vp an hye, he ledde captiuitie captiue, and gaue gyftes vnto men. 9 (But that he ascended, what is it? but that he also descended first into the lower partes of the earth? 10 He that descended, is euen the same also that ascended vp farre aboue all heauens, to fulfyll all thynges.) 11 And he gaue some apostles, and some prophetes, and some euangelistes, and some shepheardes and teachers, 12 To the gatheryng together of the saintes, into the worke of ministration, into the edifiyng of the body of Christe: 13 Tyll we all meete together into the vnitie of fayth, and knowledge of the sonne of God, vnto a perfect man, vnto the measure of the age of the fulnesse of Christe: Ephesians 4:1-13, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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