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In him through whom we also have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him that worketh all things after the counsel of his own will,

That we who first believed in Christ, might be to the praise of his glory.

Who is an earnest of our inheritance, till the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of his glory.

The eyes of your understanding being inlightened, that ye may know 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 toward us who believe, according to the energy of his mighty power,

Which he wrought in Christ, raising him from the dead; and he hath made him sit at his own right-hand in heavenly places,

And he hath put all things under his feet, and hath given him to be head over all things to the church,

Which is his body; who is the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

through his great love wherewith he loved us, Hath quickened us together with Christ, even when we were dead in trespasses, (by grace ye are saved) And hath raised us up together,

That he might shew in the ages to come the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

For we are his workmanship, created through Christ Jesus unto good works, which God had before prepared, that we might walk in them.

having broken down the middle wall of partition, Having abolished by his flesh the enmity, the law of commandments, through his decrees, that he might make the two one new man in himself, so making peace:

That the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and joint-partakers of his promise by Christ through the gospel,

Of which I have been made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effectual working of his power.

family in heaven and earth is named) That he would give you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man, That Christ may dwell in your heart by faith:

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth 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 which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Men ought so to love their wives as their own bodies: he that loveth his wife, loveth himself.

Now no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also the Lord the church.

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.