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| [1]Request I therefore of you I a prisoner in our Lord that you walk just as is suitable to the calling in which you are called |
[1]I THEREFORE, a prisoner of our LORD, beseech you to live as is worthy of the rank to which you are called, |
| [2]In all humility of mind and quietness and length of spirit and you would be patient one toward another in love |
[2]With all humility and gentleness and with patience, forbearing one another in love, |
| [3]And be you diligent to keep the harmony of The Spirit in the bonds of peace |
[3]Endeavoring to preserve the harmony of the Spirit in the bond of peace, |
| [4]That you would be in one body and in One Spirit as when you were called in one hope of your calling |
[4]That you may become one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling; |
| [5]One there is for the Lord and one faith and one baptism |
[5]There is one LORD, one faith, and one baptism; |
| [6]And one Alaha The Father of all and over all and with all and in us all |
[6]One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in all of us. |
| [7]To each one of us but is given grace according to the size of the gift of the Messiah |
[7]But to every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. |
| [8]Because of this it is said "He ascended to the heights and brought captive captivity and He has given gifts to children of men |
[8]Wherefore it is said, He ascended on high, and took possession of heaven and gave good gifts to men. |
| [9]That He ascended but what? is that but if that also He descended first to the lower regions of the earth |
[9]Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the inner parts of the earth? |
| [10]He Who descended is He The Same Who also ascended higher than all Heavens to restore all things |
[10]So he that descended is the same also that ascended far above all heavens, that he might fulfil all things. |
| [11]And He gave some who are apostles and some who are prophets and some who are evangelists and some who are pastors and some who are teachers |
[11]And he has assigned some, apostles, and some, prophets, and some, evangelists, and some, pastors, and some, teachers; |
| [12]For the perfecting of the holy ones for the work of the ministry for the building up of the body of The Messiah |
[12]For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: |
| [13]Until we all shall be one thing in faith and in knowledge of The Son of Alaha and one man perfect with the dimensions of the stature of the maturity of The Messiah |
[13]Until we all become one in faith, and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and become a perfect man according to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: |
| [14]Neither we shall be children who are shaken and troubled for every wind of teaching crafty of children of men those who in their cunning plot to seduce |
[14]That we henceforth be not as children easily stirred and carried away by every wind of false doctrines of men who through their craftiness are artful in deceiving the people; |
| [15]But we were firm in our love that all affairs our may increase in The Messiah Who is The Head |
[15]But that we be sincere in our love, so that in everything we may progress through Christ, who is the head. |
| [16]And from Him the whole body constructed and joined in every joint according to a gift given in measure to every member for the growth His of body that in love may be completed His building |
[16]It is through him that the whole body is closely and firmly united at all joints, according to the measure of the gift which is given to every member, for the guidance and control of the body, in order to complete the edifying of the body in love. |
| [17]This but say I and testify I in the Lord that from now not you should be walking as others of the nations who walk in the emptiness of their minds |
[17]This I say therefore and testify in the LORD: that you henceforth live not as other Gentiles, who live in the vanity of their mind, |
| [18]And they are dark in their intellects and aliens are to the Life of Alaha because there is not in them knowledge and because of the blindness of their heart |
[18]And whose understanding is dark, and who are alienated from the life of God, because they have no knowledge, and because of the blindness of their hearts; |
| [19]Those who have cut off their hope and have handed over their souls to lewdness and to the cultivation of every impurity in their greed |
[19]And who have given up their hope, and have surrendered themselves to wantonness, and to the practice of all uncleanness in their covetousness. |
| [20]You but not have in this way you learned Him The Messiah |
[20]But that is not what you have been taught about Christ; |
| [21]If truly you have heard Him and by Him you have learned as whatever is the truth is in Ieshu |
[21]If you have truly heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is found in Jesus: |
| [22]But that you should put aside from you your way of life first man that old who is corrupted by desires of deception |
[22]That you lay aside all your former practices, that is to say, the old man which is degenerated with deceitful lusts; |
| [23]And you should be made new in the spirit of your minds |
[23]And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; |
| [24]And you should put on the man new he who in Alaha has been created in righteousness and in the purity of the truth |
[24]And that you put on the new man, who is created by God in righteousness and true holiness. |
| [25]Because of this put aside from you lying and speak the truth a man with his neighbor members we are for one of another |
[25]Wherefore you must put away from you lying, and speak the truth every man with his neighbor: for we are members one of another. |
| [26]Be angry and not sin you and the sun on your anger not let set |
[26]Be angry, but sin not: and let not the sun go down upon your anger; |
| [27]Neither you should give a place to The Slanderer |
[27]And do not give the devil a chance. |
| [28]And whoever stolen has from now on not let him steal but let him toil with his hands and let him produce good that there will be to him to give to the one who has need |
[28]From henceforth let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor with his hands and do good deeds, that he may have something to give to him who is in need. |
| [29]Any words hateful from your mouth not let come out but whatever is good and useful for improvement that you may give grace to those who hear |
[29]Let no bad word proceed from your mouth, but words that are good and useful for edification, that they will impart blessing to those who hear them. |
| [30]Neither be you grieving The Spirit Holy of Alaha you have been sealed in Whom to the day of redemption |
[30]And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed unto the day of salvation. |
| [31]All bitterness and fury and rage and clamor and insults let be taken away from you with all wickedness |
[31]Let all bitterness and wrath, and anger, and clamouring and blasphemy be put away from you, together with all malice: |
| [32]And be you sweet one to another and affectionate and be you forgiving one another just as Alaha in The Messiah has forgiven us |
[32]And be kind one to another and tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God has forgiven us through Christ. |