September 21, 2012, Reading

The Letter of St. Paul to the Ephesians    4: 1-7, 11-13

4:1 And so, as a prisoner in the Lord, I beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the vocation to which you have been called:
4:2 with all humility and meekness, with patience, supporting one another in charity.
4:3 Be anxious to preserve the unity of the Spirit within the bonds of peace.
4:4 One body and one Spirit: to this you have been called by the one hope of your calling:
4:5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
4:6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.
4:7 Yet to each one of us there has been given grace according to the measure allotted by Christ.
4:11 And the same one granted that some would be Apostles, and some Prophets, yet truly others evangelists, and others pastors and teachers,
4:12 for the sake of the perfection of the saints, by the work of the ministry, in the edification of the body of Christ,
4:13 until we all meet in the unity of faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as a perfect man, in the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ.

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