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of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.

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

Therefore, putting away lying, "Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor," Zechariah 8:16">[fn] for we are members of one another.

Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.

So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.

For we are members of His body, [fn] of His flesh and of His bones.

"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." Genesis 2:24">[fn]

Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

But you know his proven character, that as a son with his father he served with me in the gospel.

because for the work of Christ he came close to death, not regarding his life, to supply what was lacking in your service toward me.

that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.

And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy;