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I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,

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with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love

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giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

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[There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in 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 all.

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But unto each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

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Wherefore he saith, When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, And gave gifts unto men.

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(Now this, He ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?

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

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And he gave some [to be] apostles and some, prophets and some, evangelists and some, pastors and teachers

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for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

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till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

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that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error

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but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ

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from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in [due] measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.