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

by predestining us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He graciously bestowed on us in the Beloved.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our transgressions, according to the riches of His grace

making known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him

In Him, we also have been made an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,

to the end that we who first have hoped in Christ would be to the praise of His glory.

who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory.

so that you—the eyes of your heart having been enlightened—will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe according to the working of the might of His strength,

which He worked in Christ, by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,

And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church,

which 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,

so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might create the two into one new man, making peace,

which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit:

of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God's grace which was given to me according to the working of His power.

that He would give you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,