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in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;

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

which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God's own possession, unto the praise of his glory.

having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

and what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

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

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

which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

that in the ages to come he might shew 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 afore prepared that we should walk in them.

having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the twain one new man, so making peace;

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

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 neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, 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.