Gifts for the Unity of the Body

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But vnto euery one of vs is giuen grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

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Wherfore he saith, Whe he asceded vp on hie, he led captiuity captiue, and gaue gifts vnto men.

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(Nowe, in that hee ascended, what is it but that he had also descended first into the lowest partes of the earth?

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Hee that descended, is euen the same that ascended, farre aboue all heauens, that hee might fill all things)

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Hee therefore gaue some to be Apostles, and some Prophets, and some Euangelists, and some Pastours, and Teachers,

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For the repairing of the Saintes, for the woorke of the ministerie, and for the edification of the bodie of Christ,

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Till we all meete together (in the vnitie of faith and that acknowledging of the Sonne of God) vnto a perfite man, and vnto the measure of the age of the fulnesse of Christ,

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That we henceforth be no more children, wauering and caried about with euery winde of doctrine, by the deceit of men, and with craftines, whereby they lay in wait to deceiue.

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But let vs folowe the truth in loue, and in all things, grow vp into him, which is the head, that is, Christ.

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By whome al the body being coupled and knit together by euery ioynt, for ye furniture therof (according to the effectual power, which is in the measure of euery part) receiueth increase of the body, vnto the edifying of itselfe in loue.

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