1. I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation with which ye are called,
2. with all humility and meekness, with tolerance, forbearing one another in love,
3. being diligent to guard the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4. There is one body and one Spirit, even as ye 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 you all.
7. But unto each one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of the Christ.
8. Therefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men.
9. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
10. He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all the heavens, that he might fulfill all things.)