Ephesians 4

¹I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

²With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;

³Taking care to keep the harmony of the Spirit in the yoke of peace.

⁴There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been marked out by God in the one hope of his purpose for you;

⁵One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

⁶One God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

⁷But to every one of us has grace been given in the measure of the giving of Christ.

⁸For this reason he says, He went up on high, taking his prisoners with him, and gave freely to men.

⁹(Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth?

¹⁰He who went down is the same who went up far over all the heavens so that he might make all things complete.)

¹¹And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;

¹²For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:

¹³Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ: