Catholic Public Domain Version

Ephesians 4:7-13 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

7. Yet to each one of us there has been given grace according to the measure allotted by Christ.

8. Because of this, he says: "Ascending on high, he took captivity itself captive; he gave gifts to men."

9. Now that he has ascended, what is left except for him also to descended, first to the lower parts of the earth?

10. He who descended is the same one who also ascended above all the heavens, so that he might fulfill everything.

11. And the same one granted that some would be Apostles, and some Prophets, yet truly others evangelists, and others pastors and teachers,

12. for the sake of the perfection of the saints, by the work of the ministry, in the edification of the body of Christ,

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.