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to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope 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 toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the assembly,

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

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

that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding 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 before that we would walk in them.

which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,

whereof I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;

Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members one of another.

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

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also the assembly;

because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."