MODERN LITERAL VERSION

4:1 Therefore, I, the prisoner in the Lord, am encouraging you* to walk worthily of the calling in which you* were called,
4:2 with all humility and meekness, with patience tolerating one another in love*.
4:3 Be diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4:4 There is one body and one Spirit, just-as you* were also called in one hope of your* calling;
4:5 one Lord, one faith, one immersion*,
4:6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in us all.
4:7 Now the grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

4:8 Hence he says, ‘When he ascended onto high, he captured captivity and gave presents to men.' {Ps 68:18}
4:9 Now this saying, He ascended, (what is it saying?) except that he also came down into the downward parts of the earth first?
4:10 He who came down is also the same as he who ascended up above all the heavens, that* he might fulfill all things.
4:11 And he gave some to be apostles, and some to be prophets, and some to be evangelists, and some to be shepherds and teachers.
4:12 He did this *for the equipping of the holy-ones, *for the work of the service, *for the building up of the body of Christ,
4:13 till we all might achieve to the unity of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
4:14 in order that we may no longer be infants, bobbing on the waves and being carried about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of men, by craftiness, with the schemes of error.
4:15 But telling the truth in love*, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, the Christ;
4:16 from whom all the body is fitly framed and knitted together, through every supplying joint, according to the working in measure of each part, that makes* the growth of the body to the building up of itself in love*.

4:17 Therefore I am saying and testifying this in the Lord: you* are to walk no longer as the rest of the Gentiles are also walking, in the futility of their mind,
4:18 being darkened in their mind, having been alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;
4:19 who are apathetic, they gave themselves up to unbridled-lusts, *for the working of all uncleanness with greed.

4:20 But you* did not so learn Christ;
4:21 if actually you* heard him and were taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus;
4:22 to have placed away from yourselves the old man, according to your* former conduct, which is corrupt according to the lusts of deceitfulness;
4:23 and to be young again in the spirit of your* mind,
4:24 and to be clothed with the new man, which has been created according to God, in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

4:25 Hence, placing all lying away from yourselves, speak each one the truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.
4:26 ‘Be angry and do not sin.' {Ps. 4:4} Do not let the sun set upon your* anger,
4:27 nor give a chance to the Devil.
4:28 Let the one who steals, steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working at what is good with his hands, in order that he may have something to give to the one who has need.
4:29 Let no rotten speech go out from your* mouth. But if any speech is good for the building up of a need, do this that* it may give grace to those who are hearing.
4:30 And do not make the Holy Spirit of God sorrowful, in whom you* were sealed to the day of redemption.
4:31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and outcrying and blasphemy, be taken away from you*, along with all malice;
4:32 and become kind to one another, affectionate, forgiving* each other, just-as God also forgave* us in Christ.