49:004:001 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord,
beseech you that ye
walk
worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
49:004:002 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering,
forbearing
one another in love;
49:004:003 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit
in the bond of
peace.
49:004:004 There is one body, and one Spirit, even
as ye are called in
one
hope of your calling;
49:004:005 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
49:004:006 One God and Father of all, who is above
all, and through all,
and
in you all.
49:004:007 But unto every one of us is given grace
according to the
measure
of the gift of Christ.
49:004:008 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up
on high, he led
captivity
captive, and gave gifts unto men.
49:004:009 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that
he also descended
first
into the lower parts of the earth?
49:004:010 He that descended is the same also that
ascended up far above
all
heavens, that he might fill all things.)
49:004:011 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets;
and some,
evangelists;
and some, pastors and teachers;
49:004:012 For the perfecting of the saints, for the
work of the
ministry,
for the edifying of the body of Christ:
49:004:013 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:
49:004:014 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;
49:004:015 But speaking the truth in love, may grow
up into him in all
things,
which is the head, even Christ:
49:004:016 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.
49:004:017 This I say therefore, and testify in the
Lord, that ye
henceforth
walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of
their
mind,
49:004:018 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:
49:004:019 Who being past feeling have given themselves
over unto
lasciviousness,
to work all uncleanness with greediness.
49:004:020 But ye have not so learned Christ;


