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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the twain 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 which 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 fulfill 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;

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

in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable 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 church;

even the mystery which hath been hid from all ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints,

whereunto I labour also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments 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 hath seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,