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will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of His love,

Now to Him who is able to do infinitely more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.

In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.

For we are members of His body.

"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."

Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.

Therefore if you have any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,

For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good pleasure.

But you know Timothy's proven worth, that as a child with his father he has served with me to advance the gospel.

because he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for your deficit of service to me.

I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,

who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.

And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully