1I therefore plead with you, I the prisoner in the Lord, to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called.2With all humility and gentleness, with patience, enduring one another in love.3Being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.4One body and one spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling.5One Lord, one faith, one baptism.6One God and father of all, the one who is over all and through all and in all.7But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the free gift of the Christ.8Therefore it says, 'When he ascended on high, he took captivity captive and gave gifts to men.'9Now the statement 'he ascended'—what does it mean except that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?10He who descended is himself also the one who ascended far above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things.11And he himself gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as shepherds and teachers.12For the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ.13Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.14So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.15Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, Christ.16From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is supplied, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.