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3 endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye 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 all.
7 But to each one of us was given the grace [which he hath] according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
8 Wherefore he saith: "When he ascended on high, he led captive a train of captives, and gave gifts to men."
9 Now what is implied in his ascending, but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?
10 He who descended is the same as he who ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.
11 And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 for the perfecting of the saints for the work of ministration, for the building up of the body of Christ;
13 till we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a fullgrown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
14 that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and borne about by every wind of teaching, through the dishonest tricks of men, and their cunning in the wily arts of error;
15 but cleaving to truth in love, may grow up in all things unto him who is the head, even Christ;
16 from whom the whole body, well put together and compacted by means of every supplying joint, is, according to the working of each part in its proportion, building itself up in love.