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Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things to himself.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don't cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, to all patience and perseverance with joy;

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins;

and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross. Through him, I say, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens.

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly;

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,