1. I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called,
2. with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
3. making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling,
5. one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6. one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
7. But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
8. Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he captured captives; he gave gifts to men.”
9. Now what is the meaning of “he ascended,” except that he also descended to the lower regions, namely, the earth?
10. He, the very one who descended, is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.