4:1   Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling from God,

4:2   with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love,

4:3   showing diligence to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

4:4   There exists one body and one Spirit, just as also God called you in one hope of your calling;

4:5   one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

4:6   one God and Father of all who rules over all and through all and in all.

4:7   But to each one of us we received grace according to the measure of Christ's gift.

4:8  Therefore it says, " WHEN HE ASCENDED ON HIGH, HE LED CAPTIVE A HOST OF CAPTIVES, AND HE GAVE GIFTS TO MEN."

4:9   (Now this expression, "He ascended," what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth?

4:10   He who descended has ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things.)

4:11   And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,

4:12   for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;

4:13   until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.

4:14   As a result, we can no longer consider ourselves children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;

4:15   but speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in all aspects into Him the head, even Christ,

4:16   from whom the whole body, fit and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

4:17   So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

4:18   having become darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

4:19  and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

4:20   But you did not learn Christ in this way,

4:21   if indeed you have heard Him and have received instruction in Him, just as truth emanates from Jesus,

4:22   that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which becomes corrupt in accordance with the lusts of deceit,

4:23   and that you receive renewal in the spirit of your mind,

4:24   and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God He created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

4:25   Therefore, laying aside falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE of you WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we have become members of one another.

4:26   HAVE ANGER, AND yet DO NOT SIN; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

4:27   and do not give the devil an opportunity.

4:28   He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what proves good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need.

4:29   Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word which proves good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear.

4:30   Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you received a seal for the day of redemption.

4:31   Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander disappear from you, along with all malice.

4:32   Show kindness to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.