Catholic Public Domain Version

Ephesians 4:13-21 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

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.

14. So may we then no longer be little children, disturbed and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, and by the craftiness which deceives unto error.

15. Instead, acting according to truth in charity, we should increase in everything, in him who is the head, Christ himself.

16. For in him, the whole body is joined closely together, by every underlying joint, through the function allotted to each part, bringing improvement to the body, toward its edification in charity.

17. And so, I say this, and I testify in the Lord: that from now on you should walk, not as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,

18. having their intellect obscured, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is within them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

19. Such as these, despairing, have given themselves over to sexual immorality, carrying out every impurity with rapacity.

20. But this is not what you have learned in Christ.

21. For certainly, you have listened to him, and you have been instructed in him, according to the truth that is in Jesus: