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but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.

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

and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

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

if so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward;

whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which from all ages hath been hid in God who created all things;

to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,

and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;

and put on the new man, which after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell.