1 I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,2 With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;3 Taking care to keep the harmony of the Spirit in the yoke of peace.4 There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been marked out by God in the one hope of his purpose for you;5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,6 One God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.7 But to every one of us has grace been given in the measure of the giving of Christ.8 For this reason he says, He went up on high, taking his prisoners with him, and gave freely to men.9 (Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth?10 He who went down is the same who went up far over all the heavens so that he might make all things complete.)11 And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;12 For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:13 Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ:14 So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;15 But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;16 Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.17 This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,18 Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;19 Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.20 For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;21 If in fact you gave ear to him, and were given teaching in him, even as what is true is made clear in Jesus:22 That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;23 And be made new in the spirit of your mind,24 And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.25 And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.26 Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;27 And do not give way to the Evil One.28 Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.30 And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation.31 Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;32 And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

1 Obsecro itaque vos ego vinctus in Domino, ut digne ambuletis vocatione, qua vocati estis, 2 cum omni humilitate, et mansuetudine, cum patientia, supportantes invicem in caritate, 3 solliciti servare unitatem Spiritus in vinculo pacis. 4 Unum corpus, et unus Spiritus, sicut vocati estis in una spe vocationis vestr. 5 Unus Dominus, una fides, unum baptisma. 6 Unus Deus et Pater omnium, qui est super omnes, et per omnia, et in omnibus nobis.7 Unicuique autem nostrum data est gratia secundum mensuram donationis Christi. 8 Propter quod dicit : Ascendens in altum, captivam duxit captivitatem : dedit dona hominibus. 9 Quod autem ascendit, quid est, nisi quia et descendit primum in inferiores partes terr ? 10 Qui descendit, ipse est et qui ascendit super omnes clos, ut impleret omnia. 11 Et ipse dedit quosdam quidem apostolos, quosdam autem prophetas, alios vero evangelistas, alios autem pastores et doctores, 12 ad consummationem sanctorum in opus ministerii, in dificationem corporis Christi : 13 donec occurramus omnes in unitatem fidei, et agnitionis Filii Dei, in virum perfectum, in mensuram tatis plenitudinis Christi : 14 ut jam non simus parvuli fluctuantes, et circumferamur omni vento doctrin in nequitia hominum, in astutia ad circumventionem erroris. 15 Veritatem autem facientes in caritate, crescamus in illo per omnia, qui est caput Christus : 16 ex quo totum corpus compactum et connexum per omnem juncturam subministrationis, secundum operationem in mensuram uniuscujusque membri, augmentum corporis facit in dificationem sui in caritate.17 Hoc igitur dico, et testificor in Domino, ut jam non ambuletis, sicut et gentes ambulant in vanitate sensus sui, 18 tenebris obscuratum habentes intellectum, alienati a vita Dei per ignorantiam, qu est in illis, propter ccitatem cordis ipsorum, 19 qui desperantes, semetipsos tradiderunt impudiciti, in operationem immunditi omnis in avaritiam. 20 Vos autem non ita didicistis Christum, 21 si tamen illum audistis, et in ipso edocti estis, sicut est veritas in Jesu, 22 deponere vos secundum pristinam conversationem veterem hominem, qui corrumpitur secundum desideria erroris. 23 Renovamini autem spiritu mentis vestr, 24 et induite novum hominem, qui secundum Deum creatus est in justitia, et sanctitate veritatis.25 Propter quod deponentes mendacium, loquimini veritatem unusquisque cum proximo suo : quoniam sumus invicem membra. 26 Irascimini, et nolite peccare : sol non occidat super iracundiam vestram. 27 Nolite locum dare diabolo : 28 qui furabatur, jam non furetur : magis autem laboret, operando manibus suis, quod bonum est, ut habeat unde tribuat necessitatem patienti. 29 Omnis sermo malus ex ore vestro non procedat : sed si quis bonus ad dificationem fidei ut det gratiam audientibus. 30 Et nolite constristare Spiritum Sanctum Dei : in quo signati estis in diem redemptionis. 31 Omnis amaritudo, et ira, et indignatio, et clamor, et blasphemia tollatur a vobis cum omni malitia. 32 Estote autem invicem benigni, misericordes, donantes invicem sicut et Deus in Christo donavit vobis.