4: 2 with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
4: 3 giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4: 4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;
4: 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
4: 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and 43in all.
43So p46ℵBCA 1739 33 81 copsa,bo. 1175 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss. read in you all.
4: 7 But unto each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
4: 8 Wherefore he saith, 44When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, 45He gave gifts unto men.
44Ps 68:18.
45So p46ℵ*A 33 copsa,bo vg. BC* 1739 81 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., arm read And he
4: 9 (Now this, He ascended, what is it but that he also 46descended into the lower parts of the earth?
46So p46ℵ*C*A Ivid 1739 33 81 copbo. B and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., arm vg read descended first
4: 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended far above the heavens, that he might fill all things.)
4: 11 And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
4: 12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering unto the building up of the body of Christ:
4: 13 till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
4: 14 that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
4: 15 but 47speaking truth in love, may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ;
47Or, dealing truly
4: 16 from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together 48through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.
48Gk. through every joint of the supply,
4: 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,
4: 18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;
4: 19 who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, 49to work all uncleanness with 50greediness.
49Or, to make a trade of
50Or, covetousness. Compare ch. 5:3; Col 3:5.
4: 20 But ye did not so learn Christ;
4: 21 if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
4: 22 that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
4: 23 and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
4: 24 and put on the new man, 51that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
51Or, that is after God, created etc.
4: 25 Wherefore, putting away 52falsehood, 53speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
52Gk. the lie,
53Zec 8:16.
4: 26 54Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your 55wrath:
54Ps 4:4.
55Gk. provocation:
4: 27 neither give place to the devil.
4: 28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his 56own hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.
56So ℵ*A 81 and several others, (copbo) arm. p46,49vidB vg read his hands
4: 29 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for 57edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.
57Gk. the building up of the need,
4: 30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed unto a day of redemption.
4: 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:
4: 32 and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave 58you.
58So p46ℵA 81 copsa,bo. But p49B 1739 33 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., arm vg read us.
