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Who is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of acquisition, unto the praise of his glory.

The eyes of your heart enlightened that you may know what the hope is of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

And what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us, who believe according to the operation of the might of his power,

Which he wrought in Christ, raising him up from the dead and setting him on his right hand in the heavenly places.

And he hath subjected all things under his feet and hath made him head over all the church,

Which is his body and the fulness of him who is filled all in all.

But God (who is rich in mercy) for his exceeding charity wherewith he loved us

That he might shew in the ages to come the abundant riches of his grace, in his bounty towards us in Christ Jesus.

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

For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh:

Which in other generations was not known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit:

That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body: and copartners of his promise in Christ Jesus, by the gospel

Of which I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God, which is given to me according to the operation of his power.

That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the inward man:

Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another.

He that stole, let him now steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have something to give to him that suffereth need.

Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body.

So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church:

Because we are members of him, body, of his flesh and of his bones.