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because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love.

He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will—

to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

He did this when he revealed to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

In Christ we too have been claimed as God's own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, would be to the praise of his glory.

who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.

—since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened—so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

and what is the incomparable greatness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of his immense strength.

This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms

Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them.

when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace,

Now this secret was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God's grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power.

I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,