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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother: and shall cleave to his wife. And they shall be two in one flesh.

Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular love for his wife as himself: And let the wife fear her husband.

Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord and in the might of his power.

Each one not considering the things that are his own, but those that are other men’s.

For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accomplish, according to his good will.

Because for the work of Christ he came to the point of death: delivering his life, that he might fulfil that which on your part was wanting towards my service.

That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings: being made conformable to his death,

Who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory, according to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue all things unto himself.

And may my God supply all your want, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding:

Strengthened with all might according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy,

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins:

And through him to reconcile all things unto himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on earth and the things that are in heaven.

Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unspotted and blameless before him:

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church:

The mystery which hath been hidden from ages and generations, but now is manifested to his saints,

Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he worketh in me in power.

Let no man seduce you, willing in humility and religion of angels, walking in the things which he hath not seen, in vain puffed up by the sense of his flesh:

Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,