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for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate [us] into the reign of the Son of His love,

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

and through him to reconcile the all things to himself -- having made peace through the blood of his cross -- through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.

in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

the secret that hath been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was manifested to his saints,

for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.

let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and [in] worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

salute ye those in Laodicea -- brethren, and Nymphas, and the assembly in his house;

and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom He did raise out of the dead -- Jesus, who is rescuing us from the anger that is coming.

even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.

for what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his presence?