3 being diligent endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond tie of the peace;

4 one body and one Spirit, according as also you were called in 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 you MT reads us all,

7 and to each one of you was given the grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ,

8 wherefore, he says, 'Having gone up on high he led captive captivity, and gave gifts to men,' --

9 and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went down first to the lower parts of the earth?

10 he who went down is the same also who went up far above all the heavens, that He may fill all things --

11 and He gave some as apostles couriers, ones dispatched, and some as prophets, and some as proclaimers of good news, and some as shepherds and teachers,

12 unto the perfecting making complete of the saints, for a work of ministration service, for a building up of the body of the Christ,

13 till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition complete knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect complete man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,