in whom you also hoped after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom, after you also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

For this reason I also, since I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and your love to all the saints,

high above every principality and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come;

among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the feelings, and were by nature children of wrath, even as others:

in whom you also are builded together, for a dwelling-place of God by his Spirit.

But this He ascended what does it mean, but that he also descended into the lower earthly regions?

He that descended is also he that ascended high above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave him self for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet odor.

for the husband is the head of the wife, as the Christ also is the head of the church; and he is the savior of the body.

But as the church is subject to the Christ, so, also, let the wives be subject to their own husbands in every thing.

Husbands, love your wives, as the Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,

But that you, also, may know my affairs, how I do, Tychicus, my beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make known all things to you;