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and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

and my trial that [is] in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me -- as Christ Jesus;

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap,

and as many as by this rule do walk -- peace upon them, and kindness, and on the Israel of God!

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

Blessed [is] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,

and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift,

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity in it,

Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,

of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;

and to cause all to see what [is] the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ,

that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly [places], through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,