9 (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
10 He who descended is also He who ascended far above all the heavens that He might fill all things.)
11 He gave some to be apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers,
12 for the equipping of the saints, for the work of service, and for the building up of the body ofChrist,
13 until we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Sonof God, into a complete man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
14 so we may no longer be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men, by craftiness with deceitful scheming.
15 But, speaking the truth in love, we may grow up in all things into Him, who is the head, Christ Himself,