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1 I there­fore, the pris­on­er of the Lord, be­seech you that ye walk wor­thy of the vo­ca­tion where­with ye are called, 2 With all low­li­ness and meek­ness, with long­suf­fer­ing, for­bear­ing one an­oth­er in love; 3 En­deav­our­ing to keep the uni­ty of the Spir­it in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body, and one Spir­it, even as ye are called in one hope of your call­ing; 5 One Lord, one faith, one bap­tism, 6 One God and Fa­ther of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 7 But unto ev­ery one of us is giv­en grace ac­cord­ing to the mea­sure of the gift of Christ. 8 Where­fore he saith, When he as­cend­ed up on high, he led cap­tiv­i­ty cap­tive, and gave gifts unto men. 9 (Now that he as­cend­ed, what is it but that he also de­scend­ed first into the low­er parts of the earth? 10 He that de­scend­ed is the same also that as­cend­ed up far above all heav­ens, that he might fill all things.) 11 And he gave some, apos­tles; and some, prophets; and some, evan­ge­lists; and some, pas­tors and teach­ers; 12 For the per­fect­ing of the saints, for the work of the min­istry, for the ed­i­fy­ing of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the uni­ty of the faith, and of the knowl­edge of the Son of God, unto a per­fect man, unto the mea­sure of the stature of the ful­ness of Christ: 14 That we henceforth be no more chil­dren, tossed to and fro, and car­ried about with ev­ery wind of doc­trine, by the sleight of men, and cun­ning crafti­ness, where­by they lie in wait to de­ceive; 15 But speak­ing the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: 16 From whom the whole body fit­ly joined to­geth­er and com­pact­ed by that which ev­ery joint sup­pli­eth, ac­cord­ing to the ef­fec­tu­al work­ing in the mea­sure of ev­ery part, maketh in­crease of the body unto the ed­i­fy­ing of it­self in love. 17 This I say there­fore, and tes­ti­fy in the Lord, that ye hence­forth walk not as oth­er Gen­tiles walk, in the van­i­ty of their mind, 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: 19 Who be­ing past feel­ing have giv­en them­selves over unto las­civ­i­ous­ness, to work all un­clean­ness with greed­i­ness. 20 But ye have not so learned Christ; 21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Je­sus: 22 That ye put off con­cern­ing the for­mer con­ver­sa­tion the old man, which is cor­rupt ac­cord­ing to the de­ceit­ful lusts; 23 And be re­newed in the spir­it of your mind; 24 And that ye put on the new man, which af­ter God is cre­at­ed in righ­teous­ness and true ho­li­ness. 25 Where­fore putting away ly­ing, speak ev­ery man truth with his neigh­bour: for we are mem­bers one of an­oth­er. 26 Be ye an­gry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27 Nei­ther give place to the dev­il. 28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, work­ing with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. 29 Let no cor­rupt com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­ceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of ed­i­fy­ing, that it may min­is­ter grace unto the hear­ers. 30 And grieve not the holy Spir­it of God, where­by ye are sealed unto the day of re­demp­tion. 31 Let all bit­ter­ness, and wrath, and anger, and clam­our, and evil speak­ing, be put away from you, with all mal­ice: 32 And be ye kind one to an­oth­er, ten­der­heart­ed, for­giv­ing one an­oth­er, even as God for Christ's sake hath for­giv­en you.