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\subsection{Ephesians 4}
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\VS{1} I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, call upon you to walk worthy of the
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calling with which you were called,
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\VS{2} with all humblemindedness and
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gentleness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in agape-love,
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\VS{3} being eager to keep the oneness of the spirit in the bonds of peace:
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\begin{verse}
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\VS{4} One body and one spirit \\
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Just as you were called in one hope [of your] calling \\
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\VS{5} One Lord, one faith, one baptism, \\
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\VS{6} One God and father of everything, \\
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Above all and through all and in all.
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\end{verse}
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\VS{7} So to each one [of you] was grace given you according to the measure of the
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gift of Christ.
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\VS{8} Therefore it says:
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\begin{verse}
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Having ascended to the height he led captivity captive, \\
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He gave gifts to men.
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\end{verse}
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\VS{9} Now that he ascended, what is it except that he also descended to the
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lower parts of the earth?
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\VS{10} The [one] having descended is he himself who
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also ascended above all the heavens, in order that he fulfill everything.
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\VS{11} And he himself gave apostles, and prophets, and good-newsers, and
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shepherds, and teachers,
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\VS{12} for the equipping of the holy [ones] for the work
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of [the] service, to the upbuilding of the body of Christ,
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\VS{13} until we all
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attain the oneness of the faith and the knowledge of the son of God, to [a]
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complete man, to the measure of [the] stature of the fullness of Christ,
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\VS{14} in order that we no longer be infants, tossed and carried by every wind of
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teaching, by the sleight of men, [and] by cunning towards the stratagems of
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deceit,
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\VS{15} but being truthful in agape-love, let us increase in him
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[in] everything, who is the head, [even] Christ,
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\VS{16} from whom the whole body,
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fitting together and joining together through the provision of every joint
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according to the working in the measure of each single part, makes the
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increase of the body to the upbuilding of itself in agape-love.
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\VS{17} This
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therefore I saw and I testify in the Lord, that you no longer be walking
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just as the nations walk in the futility of their mind,
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\VS{18} having
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darkened in their intellect, being alienated from the zoe-life\fnZoe{} of God, because
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of the ignorance being in them, because of the hardening of their hearts,
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\VS{19} who, having become callous, have delivered themselves up to
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sensuality for the practice of every uncleanness in greed.
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\VS{20} But you did not thus learn Christ,
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\VS{21} if indeed you heard him and were taught
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in him just as the truth is in Jesus,
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\VS{22} to put off [from] you concerning the
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former manner-of-life the old man which is being corrupted according to the
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lusts of deceitfulness,
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\VS{23} to be renewing in the spirit [of your] mind,
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\VS{24}
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and to put on the new man having been created according to God in justness
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and piety of the truth.
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\VS{25} therefore having put off the false, be each
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speaking truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.
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\VS{26} Be being angry and be not sinning, let\fnImperative{} the sun
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not set on your anger,
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\VS{27} nor be giving place to the devil.
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\VS{28} The
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[one] stealing let\fnImperative{} him no longer steal, rather
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let\fnImperative{} him be laboring, working with his own hands the
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good [thing], in order that he have to be sharing with the [one] having need.
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\VS{29} Be
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letting no foul word be proceeding out [of your] mouth, but what [is] good towards the
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upbuilding of need\footnote{``need" \koine \hesychian \sinaiticus{} B; ``belief" D \vulgate{} }, in order that
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it give grace to those hearing.
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\VS{30} And be not paining the spirit of
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God, in which you were sealed for [the] day of redemption.
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\VS{31}
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Let\fnImperative{} every bitterness and passion and anger and shout
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and slander be removed from you with every evil.
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\VS{32} But become kind to
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one another, tender-hearted, being gracious to each other just as even God
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in Christ was gracious to you.
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