1. I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you therefore to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called,
2. with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;
3. using diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace.
4. There is one body and one Spirit, as ye have been also called in one hope of your calling;
5. one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
6. one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.
7. But to each one of us has been given grace according to the measure of the gift of the Christ.
8. Wherefore he says, Having ascended up on high, he has led captivity captive, and has given gifts to men.
9. But that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?
10. He that descended is the same who has also ascended up above all the heavens, that he might fill all things;
11. and he has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers,