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whereof I was made a minister, 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 ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;

Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

because we are members of his body.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

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

because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:

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

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

because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding 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 unto his death;

who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.

And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye 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, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy;

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