2. Always be humble and gentle. Patiently put up with each other and love each other.
3. Try your best to let God's Spirit keep your hearts united. Do this by living at peace.
4. All of you are part of the same body. There is only one Spirit of God, just as you were given one hope when you were chosen to be God's people.
5. We have only one Lord, one faith, and one baptism.
6. There is one God who is the Father of all people. Not only is God above all others, but he works by using all of us, and he lives in all of us.
7. Christ has generously divided out his gifts to us.
8. As the Scriptures say,“When he went upto the highest place,he led away many prisonersand gave gifts to people.”
9. When it says, “he went up”, it means that Christ had been deep in the earth.
10. This also means that the one who went deep into the earth is the same one who went into the highest heaven, so that he would fill the whole universe.
11. Christ chose some of us to be apostles, prophets, missionaries, pastors, and teachers,
12. so that his people would learn to serve and his body would grow strong.