1. I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
2. with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
3. being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;
5. one Lord, one faith, one immersion,
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 was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Messiah.
8. Therefore he says,“When he ascended on high,he led captivity captive,and gave gifts to people.”
9. Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
10. He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.
11. He gave some to be emissaries; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;