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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and they two shall be one flesh.

But let every one of you in particular so love his wife as himself: and let the wife reverence her husband.

Finally, brethren, be strong through the Lord, and through the power of his might.

Look not every one at his own things, but every one also at the things of others.

For it is God that worketh in you according to his good pleasure, both to will and to do.

But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with his father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his own life, to supply your deficiency of service toward me.

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death:

Who will transform our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, acccording to the mighty working, whereby he is able even to subject all things to himself.

And my God shall supply all your need, according to his riches in glory through Christ Jesus.

For this cause from the day we heard it, we do not cease to pray also for you, and to desire that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness:

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

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

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist, And he is the head of his body the church;

he hath now reconciled, By the body of his flesh, through death, to present you holy, and spotless, and unreproveable in his sight:

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh that which is behind of the sufferings of Christ for his body, which is the church:

The mystery which hath been hid from ages and generations; but now is manifested to his saints:

For which also I labour, striving according to his mighty working, who worketh in me mightily.

having forgiven you all trespasses, Having blotted out by his decrees the hand-writing against us, which was contrary to us; and having nailed it to his cross, he took it out of the way.