Ephesians 4:1–16

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, ¹⁴that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray, ¹⁵and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head—the Christ; ¹⁶from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.