Ephesians 4:1–16

Unity of the Spirit

¹Therefore I, ^athe prisoner in the Lord, ^bexhort you to ^cwalk worthy of the ^dcalling with which you have been ^ecalled,

²with all ^ahumility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another ^bin love,

³being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the ^abond of peace.

⁴There is ^aone body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one ^bhope of your calling;

^5aone Lord, one faith, one baptism;

⁶one God and Father of all ^awho is over all and through all and in all.

⁷But ^ato each one of us ^bgrace was given ^caccording to the measure of Christ’s gift.

⁸Therefore ¹it says,

“^aWhen He ascended on high,

He ^bled captive a host of captives,

And He gave gifts to men.”

⁹(Now this expression, “He ^aascended,” what ¹does it mean except that He also ²descended into ^bthe lower parts of the earth?

¹⁰He who descended is Himself also He who ascended ^afar above all the heavens, so that He might ^bfill all things.)

¹¹And He Himself ^agave ^bsome as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as ^cevangelists, and some as pastors and ^dteachers,

^12afor the equipping of the ¹saints for the work of service, to the building up of ^bthe body of Christ,

¹³until we all attain to ^athe unity of the faith, and of the ^1bfull knowledge of the Son of God, to a ^cmature man, to the measure of the stature ²which belongs to the ^dfullness of Christ,

¹⁴so that we are ^ano longer to be children, ^btossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by ^ccraftiness ¹in ^ddeceitful scheming,

¹⁵but ¹speaking the truth ^ain love, ²we are to ^bgrow up in all aspects into Him who is the ^chead, that is Christ,

¹⁶from whom ^athe whole body, being joined and held together ¹by what every joint supplies, according to the properly ^bmeasured working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself ^cin love.