Ephesians 4:1–13

¹Call upon you, then, do I—the prisoner of the Lord—to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called.

²With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, ³being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace; ⁴one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in 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 you all, ⁷and to each one of you was given the grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ, ⁸wherefore, he saith, ‘Having gone up on high he led captive captivity, and gave gifts to men,’— ⁹and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went down first to the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰he who went down is the same also who went up far above all the heavens, that He may fill all things— ¹¹and He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as proclaimers of good news, and some as shepherds and teachers, ¹²unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ, ¹³till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,