3 Diligently try to keep the unity oneness of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling.

5 There is one Lord, one faith, and one baptism.

6 There is one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

7 But unto 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 led captives, and gave gifts to men anthropos: human beings.«

9 (Now this, He ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?

10 He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)

11 He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers.

12 This is for the perfecting equippingpreparing of the holy ones, for the work of ministering, for the building up of the body of Christ:

13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.