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which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.

the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us who are believing, according to the working of the power of His might,

which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set [him] at His right hand in the heavenly [places],

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly,

which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,

and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,

the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in himself into one new man, making peace,

which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit --

that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,

of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;

that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;