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    The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: measure of the gift of Christ.
 EPH 4:8  Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led
captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
 EPH 4:9  (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended
first into the lower parts of the earth?
 EPH 4:10  He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above
all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
 EPH 4:11  And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some,
evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
 EPH 4:12  For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the
ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
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