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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]Call upon you, then, do I -- the prisoner of the Lord -- to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were 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 lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, |
| [3]And be you diligent to keep the harmony of The Spirit in the bonds of peace |
[3]being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the 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]one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; |
| [5]One there is for the Lord and one faith and one baptism |
[5]one Lord, one faith, 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] over all, and through all, and in you all, |
| [7]To each one of us but is given grace according to the size of the gift of the Messiah |
[7]and to each one of you was given the 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, he saith, `Having gone up on high he led captive captivity, and gave 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]and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went down first to the lower parts of the earth? |
| [10]He Who descended is He The Same Who also ascended higher than all Heavens to restore all things |
[10]he who went down is the same also who went up far above all the heavens, that He may fill 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 gave some [as] apostles, and some [as] prophets, and some [as] proclaimers of good news, and some [as] shepherds and 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]unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the 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]till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the 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 may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray, |
| [15]But we were firm in our love that all affairs our may increase in The Messiah Who is The Head |
[15]and, being true in love, we may increase to Him [in] all things, who is the head -- the Christ; |
| [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]from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself 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, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, 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]being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart, |
| [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]who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness; |
| [20]You but not have in this way you learned Him The Messiah |
[20]and ye did not so learn the Christ, |
| [21]If truly you have heard Him and by Him you have learned as whatever is the truth is in Ieshu |
[21]if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is 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]ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit, |
| [23]And you should be made new in the spirit of your minds |
[23]and to 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 to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth. |
| [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, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because 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 and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath, |
| [27]Neither you should give a place to The Slanderer |
[27]neither give place to the devil; |
| [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]whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having 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 corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers; |
| [30]Neither be you grieving The Spirit Holy of Alaha you have been sealed in Whom to the day of redemption |
[30]and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption. |
| [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 clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, 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 become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you. |