Ephesians 4:4-16

4There is one body and one Ruach, just as you also were called in one hope of your calling;

5one Lord, one faith, one immersion;

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

7But to each one of us grace was given in keeping with the measure of Messiah’s gift.

8Therefore it says, “When He went up on high, He led captive a troop of captives and gave gifts to his people.”

9Now what does “He went up” mean, except that He first went down to the lower regions of the earth?

10The One who came down is the same One who went up far above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.

11He Himself gave some to be emissaries, some as prophets, some as proclaimers of the Good News, and some as shepherds and teachers—

12to equip the kedoshim for the work of service, for building up the body of Messiah.

13This will continue until we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of Ben-Elohim—to mature adulthood, to the measure of the stature of Messiah’s fullness.

14As a result, we are no longer to be like children, tossed around by the waves and blown all over by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of men with cunning in deceitful scheming.

15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all ways into Messiah, who is the Head.

16From Him the whole body is fitted and held together by every supporting ligament. The proper working of each individual part produces the body’s growth, for building itself up in love.