Reformation Directory

He exhorteth them unto meekness, long suffering, unto love and peace. 3 Everyone to serve and edify another with the gift that God hath given him, 14 To beware of strange doctrine. 22 To lay aside the old conversation of greedy lusts, & to walk in a new life.

1.I *therefore, being prisoner in the ^aLord, pray you that ye walk worthy of the vocation whereunto ye are called,

2.With all humbleness of mind, and meekness, with long suffering, supporting one another through love,

3.Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

4.There is ^bone body, and one ^cSpirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your vocation.

5.There is one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism,

6.*One God and Father of all, which is ^dabove all, and ^ethrough all, and in you all.

7.*But unto every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the ^fgift of Christ.

8.Wherefore he saith, *When he ascended up on high, he ^glead captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

9.(Now, in that he ascended, what is it but that he had also descended first into the lowest parts of the earth?

10.He that descended, is even the same that ascended, far above all heavens, that he might fill ^hall things) 11*He therefore gave some to be Apostles, & some Prophets, & some Evangelists, & some Pastors, & Teachers,

12.For the ⁱgathering together of the Saints, for the work of the ministry, ^kand for the edification of the body of Christ,

13.Till we all meet together (in the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God) unto a ^lperfect man, and unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ,

14.That we henceforth be no more children, wavering & carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the deceit of men, & with craftiness, whereby they lay in wait to deceive.

15.But let us follow the truth in love, and in all things grow up into him, which is the ^mhead, that is Christ,

16.By whom all the body being coupled & knit together by every joint, for the furniture thereof (according to the effectual power, which is in the measure of every part) receiveth 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 vanity of their ⁿmind,

18.Having their cogitation darkened, and being strangers from the life of ^oGod through the ignorance that is in them, because of the ^phardness of their heart:

19.Which being ^past *feeling, have given themselves unto wantonness, to work all uncleanness, even with greediness.

20.But ye have not so learned Christ.

21.If so be ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the ^qtruth is in Jesus,

22.That is, *that ye cast off, concerning the conversation in time past, the ^rold man, which is corrupt through the deceivable lusts,

23.And be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

24.*And put on the new man, which ^safter God is created in righteousness, and true holiness.

25.*Wherefore cast off lying, and speak every man truth unto his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

26.*Be ^tangry, but 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 let him rather labour and work with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give unto him that needeth.

29.*Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good, to the use of edifying, that it may minister ^ugrace unto the hearers.

30.And ^xgrieve not the holie Spirit of God by whom ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

31.Let all bitterness, and anger, and wrath, crying, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all maliciousness.

32.*Be ye courteous one to another, and tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake forgave you.

Ephesians 4

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