Jubilee2000 - Ephesians - 4

4:1  I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation with which ye are called,

4:2  with all humility and meekness, with tolerance, forbearing one another in love,

4:3  being diligent to guard the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

4:4  [There is] one body and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling,

4:5  one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

4:6  one God and Father of all, who [is] above all and through all, and in you all.

4:7  But unto each one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of the Christ.

4:8  Therefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men.

4:9  (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

4:10  He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all the heavens, that he might fulfill all things.)

4:11  And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers,

4:12  for the perfecting of the saints in the work of the ministry, unto [the] edifying of the body of the Christ

4:13  until we all come forth in [the] unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the coming of age of the Christ:

4:14  That we no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men [and] cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive,

4:15  but following the truth in charity, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:

4:16  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and [well] tied together among itself by the nourishment that every [connecting] bond supplies, by the operation of each member according to measure they have received, making increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in charity.

4:17  This I say, therefore, and require in the Lord that from now on ye not walk as the other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their [own] senses,

4:18  having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart,

4:19  who, after losing all sense [of feeling] have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness.

4:20  But ye have not so learned of the Christ,

4:21  if so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus,

4:22  that ye put off [everything] concerning the old way of life, [that is], the old man who corrupts himself according to deceitful desires,

4:23  and be renewed in the spirit of your understanding

4:24  and that ye put on the new man, which is created in conformity to God in righteousness and in the holiness of the truth.

4:25  Therefore, leaving the lie, speak every man truth with his neighbour, for we are members one of another.

4:26  Be ye angry and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

4:27  neither give place to the devil.

4:28  Let him that stole steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands that which is good, that he may have to give to him that is in need.

4:29  Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for edification, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

4:30  And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God with which ye are sealed for the day of redemption.

4:31  Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be taken away from you, with all malice,

4:32  and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another even as God has forgiven you in Christ.: