Ephesians 4:1-21 ▼

1 I therefore, being prisoner in the Lorde, praie you that yee walke worthie of the vocation whereunto yee are called,

2 With all humblenesse of minde, and meekenesse, with long suffering, supporting one an other through loue,

3 Endeuouring to keepe the vnitie of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

4 There is one body, and one Spirit, euen as yee are called in one hope of your vocation.

5 There is one Lord, one Faith, one Baptisme,

6 One God and Father of all, which is aboue all, and through all, and in you all.

7 But vnto euery one of vs is giuen grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

8 Wherfore he saith, Whe he asceded vp on hie, he led captiuity captiue, & gaue gifts vnto men.

9 (Nowe, in that hee ascended, what is it but that he had also descended first into the lowest partes of the earth?

10 Hee that descended, is euen the same that ascended, farre aboue all heauens, that hee might fill all things)

11 Hee therefore gaue some to be Apostles, and some Prophets, and some Euangelists, and some Pastours, and Teachers,

12 For the repairing of the Saintes, for the woorke of the ministerie, and for the edification of the bodie of Christ,

13 Till we all meete together (in the vnitie of faith and that acknowledging of the Sonne of God) vnto a perfite man, and vnto the measure of the age of the fulnesse of Christ,

14 That we henceforth be no more children, wauering and caried about with euery winde of doctrine, by the deceit of men, and with craftines, whereby they lay in wait to deceiue.

15 But let vs folowe the truth in loue, and in all things, grow vp into him, which is the head, that is, Christ.

16 By whome al the body being coupled and knit together by euery ioynt, for ye furniture therof (according to the effectual power, which is in the measure of euery part) receiueth increase of the body, vnto the edifying of itselfe in loue.

17 This I say therefore and testifie in the Lorde, that yee hencefoorth walke not as other Gentiles walke, in vanitie of their minde,

18 Hauing their vnderstanding darkened, and being strangers from the life of God through the ignorace that is in them, because of the hardnesse of their heart:

19 Which being past feeling, haue giuen themselues vnto wantonnesse, to woorke all vncleannesse, euen with griedinesse.

20 But yee haue not so learned Christ,

21 If so be yee haue heard him, and haue bene taught by him, as the trueth is in Iesus,