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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: |
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with all humility and meekness, with patience, supporting one another in charity. |
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Be anxious to preserve the unity of the Spirit within the bonds of peace. |
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One body and one Spirit: to this you have been called by the one hope of your calling: |
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one Lord, one faith, one baptism, |
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one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all. |
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Yet to each one of us there has been given grace according to the measure allotted by Christ. |
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Because of this, he says: “Ascending on high, he took captivity itself captive; he gave gifts to men.” |
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Now that he has ascended, what is left except for him also to descended, first to the lower parts of the earth? |
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He who descended is the same one who also ascended above all the heavens, so that he might fulfill everything. |
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And the same one granted that some would be Apostles, and some Prophets, yet truly others evangelists, and others pastors and teachers, |
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for the sake of the perfection of the saints, by the work of the ministry, in the edification of the body of Christ, |
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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. |