¹فاطلب اليكم انا الاسير في الرب ان تسلكوا كما يحق للدعوة التي دعيتم بها.

¹*I*, the prisoner in [the] Lord, exhort you therefore to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called,

²بكل تواضع ووداعة وبطول اناة محتملين بعضكم بعضا في المحبة.

²with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;

³مجتهدين ان تحفظوا وحدانية الروح برباط السلام.

³using diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace.

⁴جسد واحد وروح واحد كما دعيتم ايضا في رجاء دعوتكم الواحد.

⁴[There is] one body and one Spirit, as ye have been also called in one hope of your calling;

⁵رب واحد ايمان واحد معمودية واحدة

⁵one Lord, one faith, one baptism;

⁶اله وآب واحد للكل الذي على الكل وبالكل وفي كلكم.

⁶one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.

⁷ولكن لكل واحد منا اعطيت النعمة حسب قياس هبة المسيح.

⁷But to each one of us has been given grace according to the measure of the gift of the Christ.

⁸لذلك يقول. اذ صعد الى العلاء سبى سبيا واعطى الناس عطايا.

⁸Wherefore he says, Having ascended up on high, he has led captivity captive, and has given gifts to men.

⁹واما انه صعد فما هو الا انه نزل ايضا اولا الى اقسام الارض السفلى.

⁹But that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?

¹⁰الذي نزل هو الذي صعد ايضا فوق جميع السموات لكي يملأ الكل.

¹⁰He that descended is the same who has also ascended up above all the heavens, that he might fill all things;

¹¹وهو اعطى البعض ان يكونوا رسلا والبعض انبياء والبعض مبشرين والبعض رعاة ومعلّمين

¹¹and *he* has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers,

¹²لاجل تكميل القديسين لعمل الخدمة لبنيان جسد المسيح

¹²for the perfecting of the saints; with a view to [the] work of [the] ministry, with a view to the edifying of the body of Christ;

¹³الى ان ننتهي جميعنا الى وحدانية الايمان ومعرفة ابن الله. الى انسان كامل. الى قياس قامة ملء المسيح.

¹³until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at [the] full-grown man, at [the] measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;

¹⁴كي لا نكون فيما بعد اطفالا مضطربين ومحمولين بكل ريح تعليم بحيلة الناس بمكر الى مكيدة الضلال.

¹⁴in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of *that* teaching [which is] in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;

¹⁵بل صادقين في المحبة ننمو في كل شيء الى ذاك الذي هو الراس المسيح

¹⁵but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:

¹⁶الذي منه كل الجسد مركبا معا ومقترنا بموازرة كل مفصل حسب عمل على قياس كل جزء يحصّل نمو الجسد لبنيانه في المحبة

¹⁶from whom the whole body, fitted together, and connected by every joint of supply, according to [the] working in [its] measure of each one part, works for itself the increase of the body to its self-building up in love.

¹⁷فاقول هذا واشهد في الرب ان لا تسلكوا في ما بعد كما يسلك سائر الامم ايضا ببطل ذهنهم

¹⁷This I say therefore, and testify in [the] Lord, that ye should no longer walk as [the rest of] the nations walk in [the] vanity of their mind,

¹⁸اذ هم مظلمو الفكر ومتجنبون عن حياة الله لسبب الجهل الذي فيهم بسبب غلاظة قلوبهم.

¹⁸being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,

¹⁹الذين اذ هم قد فقدوا الحس اسلموا نفوسهم للدعارة ليعملوا كل نجاسة في الطمع.

¹⁹who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust.

²⁰واما انتم فلم تتعلّموا المسيح هكذا

²⁰But *ye* have not thus learnt the Christ,

²¹ان كنتم قد سمعتموه وعلمتم فيه كما هو حق في يسوع

²¹if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according as [the] truth is in Jesus;

²²ان تخلعوا من جهة التصرف السابق الانسان العتيق الفاسد بحسب شهوات الغرور

²²[namely] your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;

²³وتتجددوا بروح ذهنكم

²³and being renewed in the spirit of your mind;

²⁴وتلبسوا الانسان الجديد المخلوق بحسب الله في البر وقداسة الحق

²⁴and [your] having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness.

²⁵لذلك اطرحوا عنكم الكذب وتكلموا بالصدق كل واحد مع قريبه. لاننا بعضنا اعضاء البعض.

²⁵Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.

²⁶اغضبوا ولا تخطئوا. لا تغرب الشمس على غيظكم

²⁶Be angry, and do not sin; let not the sun set upon your wrath,

²⁷ولا تعطوا ابليس مكانا.

²⁷neither give room for the devil.

²⁸لا يسرق السارق في ما بعد بل بالحري يتعب عاملا الصالح بيديه ليكون له ان يعطي من له احتياج.

²⁸Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with [his] hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need.

²⁹لا تخرج كلمة رديّة من افواهكم بل كل ما كان صالحا للبنيان حسب الحاجة كي يعطي نعمة للسامعين.

²⁹Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if [there be] any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear [it].

³⁰ولا تحزنوا روح الله القدوس الذي به ختمتم ليوم الفداء.

³⁰And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for [the] day of redemption.

³¹ليرفع من بينكم كل مرارة وسخط وغضب وصياح وتجديف مع كل خبث.

³¹Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice;

³²وكونوا لطفاء بعضكم نحو بعض شفوقين متسامحين كما سامحكم الله ايضا في المسيح

³²and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.