3 in the uniting bond of peace, the unity given by the Spirit.

4 There is but one body and but one Spirit, as also when you were called you had one and the same hope held out to you.

5 There is but one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

6 and one God and Father of all, who rules over all, acts through all, and dwells in all.

7 Yet to each of us individually grace was given, measured out with the munificence of Christ.

8 For this reason Scripture says: »He re-ascended on high, He led captive a host of captives, and gave gifts to men.«

9 (Now this »re-ascended« –what does it mean but that He had first descended into the lower regions of the earth?

10 He who descended is the same as He who ascended again far above all the Heavens in order to fill the universe.)

11 And He Himself appointed some to be Apostles, some to be Prophets, some to be evangelists, some to be pastors and teachers,

12 in order fully to equip His people for the work of serving –for the building up of Christ's body–

13 till we all of us arrive at oneness in faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and at mature manhood and the stature of full-grown men in Christ.