Jesus

in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,—in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God’s own possession, unto the praise of his glory.

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which ye show toward all the saints,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

having the eyes of your heart 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 exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,

which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

And youdid he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),

and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus:

that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus:

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.

that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

But now in Christ Jesus ye that once were far off are made nigh in the blood of Christ.

For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,

having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, so making peace;

and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

for through him we both have our access in one Spirit unto the Father.

being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone;

in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,—

how that by revelation was made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote before in few words,

whereby, when ye read, ye can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ;