having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,

to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places,

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,

till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

The New Man

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,

that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.

“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”