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making known to us the sacred secret of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him, -

In whom also we were taken as an inheritance, according to the purpose of him who energiseth all things according to the counsel of his will,

That we should be for the praise of his glory - we who had hoped beforehand in the Christ, -

Which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of the acquisition; - unto his glorious praise.

The eyes of your heart having been 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 surpassing greatness of his power unto us who believe, - according to the energy of the grasp of his might

which he energised in the Christ, when he raised him from among the dead, and seated him at his right hand in the heavenlies,

And did put, all things, in subjection beneath his feet. And gave him to be head over all things unto the assembly,

Which, indeed, is his body, the fulness of him who, the all things in all, is for himself filling up.

That he might point out, in the oncoming ages, the surpassing riches of his favour in graciousness upon us, in Christ Jesus;

For, by his favour, have ye been saved, through means of faith, and this hath come to pass - not from you, of God, the free-gift!

His, in fact we are - his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus upon a footing of good works, which God prepared beforehand, that, therein, we might walk.

The enmity, in his flesh - the law of commandments in decrees - bringing to nought, - that, the two, he might create in himself, into one man of new mould, making peace.

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

Of which I was made a minister, according to the free-gift of the favour of God which was given unto me, according to the energy of his power:

In order that he may give unto you - according to his glorious riches, with power, to be strengthened, through his Spirit, in the inner man,

That ye were to strip off - as regardeth the former behaviour - the old man, who corrupteth himself according to his deceitful covetings,

And were to put on the man of new mould, who, after God, hath been created in his truthful righteousness and loving kindness.

Wherefore, stripping off what is false, be speaking truth each one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

Let, the stealer, no more, steal, but rather let him be toiling, - working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have wherewith to be giving away to him that hath need;