In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,

and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power

which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

not of works, lest anyone should boast.

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,

from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.