4Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to live in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called: ²with all humility and gentleness, with patience, putting up with one another in love, ³being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace; ⁴one body and one Spirit (just as also you were called with one hope of your calling), ⁵one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ⁶one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

Gifted Leaders Bring the Church to Maturity

⁷Now to each one of us was given this grace, according to the measure of Christ’s gift. ⁸Therefore it says,

“Ascending on high he led captivity captive;

he gave gifts to men.”^a

⁹Now “he ascended,” what is it, except that he also descended^b to the lower regions of the earth? ¹⁰The one who descended himself is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order that he might fill all things.

¹¹And he himself gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists and some as pastors and teachers ¹²for the equipping of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for building up the body of Christ, ¹³until we all reach the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to a measure of the maturity of the fullness of Christ,

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Ephesians 4:13: … until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ …

Footnotes

aA quotation from Ps 68:18
bSome secondary manuscripts add “first”