Ephesians

¹¹It was he who gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, ¹²to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ, ¹³until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God – a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature. ¹⁴So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes. ¹⁵But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head. ¹⁶From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body grows in love. ¹⁷So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.