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that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit; that in your inner man

Now to him who is able, by his almighty power, to do for us even more than we ask or think, according to his power that worketh in us;

to him be glory, in his church, by Jesus the Messiah, in all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.

16 and from him [fn] , the whole body is framed together and compacted by all the junctures, according to the gift that is imparted by measure to each member, for the growth of the body; that his edifice may be perfected in love.

Wherefore, put away from you lying, and speak ye the truth each with his neighbor; for we are members one of another.

And let him that stole, steal no more; but let him labor with his hands, and do good acts; that he may have to give to him who needeth.

Husbands, love your wives, even as the Messiah loved his church, and delivered himself up for it;

It behooveth men so to love their wives, as [fn] their own bodies. For he that loveth his wife loveth himself.

For no one ever hated his own body; but nourisheth it, and provideth for it, even as the Messiah the church.

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

For this reason, a man should quit his father and his mother, and adhere to his wife; and the two should be one flesh.

This is a great mystery; but I am speaking of the Messiah, and of his church.

Nevertheless, let each of you severally so love his wife, even as himself: and let the wife reverence her husband.

Finally, my brethren, be strong in our Lord, and; in the energy of his power:

And this is given to you by God, that ye not only really believe in the Messiah, but also that ye suffer on his account;

And do nothing in strife, or in vain glory; but, with lowliness of mind, let each esteem his neighbor as better than himself.

And let not each be solicitous [fn] for himself, but every one also for his neighbor.

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus the Messiah is the Lord, to the glory of God his Father.

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

For, because of the Messiah's work, he came near to death, and little regarded his life, that he might fulfill what you lacked in the ministration to me.