Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and (that) your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, (even) Christ;
from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in (due) measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.
yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:
who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,