4 I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called,

² With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity.

³ Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

⁴ One body and one Spirit; as you are called in one hope of your calling.

⁵ One Lord, one faith, one baptism.

⁶ One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all.

⁷ But to every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the giving of Christ.

⁸ Wherefore he saith: Ascending on high, he led captivity captive; he gave gifts to men.

⁹ Now that he ascended, what is it, but because he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

¹⁰ He that descended is the same also that ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

¹¹ And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some evangelists, and other some pastors and doctors,

¹² For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

¹³ Until we all meet into the unity of faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ;