1. I am a prisoner because of the Lord. So I am asking you to live a life worthy of what God chose you for.
2. Don't be proud at all. Be completely gentle. Be patient. Put up with one another in love.
3. The Holy Spirit makes you one in every way. So try your best to remain as one. Let peace keep you together.
4. There is one body. There is one Spirit. You were appointed to one hope when you were chosen.
5. There is one Lord. There is one faith and one baptism.
6. There is one God and Father of all. He is over everything. He is through everything. He is in everything.
7. But each one of us has received a gift of grace, just as Christ wanted us to have it.
8. That is why Scripture says, "When he went up to his place on high, he led a line of prisoners. He gave gifts to people." (Psalm 68:18)
9. What does "he went up" mean? It can only mean that he also came down to the lower, earthly places.
10. The One who came down is the same as the One who went up higher than all the heavens. He did it in order to fill all of creation.
11. He is the One who gave some the gift to be apostles. He gave some the gift to be prophets. He gave some the gift of preaching the good news. And he gave some the gift to be pastors and teachers.