3 Be anxious to preserve the unity of the Spirit within the bonds of peace.
4 One body and one Spirit: to this you have been called by the one hope of your calling:
5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.
7 Yet to each one of us there has been given grace according to the measure allotted by Christ.
8 Because of this, he says: "Ascending on high, he took captivity itself captive; he gave gifts to men."
9 Now that he has ascended, what is left except for him also to descended, first to the lower parts of the earth?