From the first he destined us, in his good-will towards us, to be adopted as Sons through Jesus Christ,

For in him, and through the shedding of his blood, we have found redemption in the pardon of our offenses.

My prayer is that the God of Jesus Christ our Lord, the all- glorious Father, may inspire you with wisdom and true insight through a fuller knowledge of himself;

And, through our union with Christ Jesus, God raised us with him, and caused us to sit with him on high,

For it is by God's loving-kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God's.

But now, through your union with Christ Jesus, you who once were 'far off' have, by the shedding of the blood of the Christ, been brought 'near.'

And in his human nature put an end to the cause of enmity between them--the Law with its injunctions and ordinances--in order to create, through union with himself, from Jew and Gentile, one New Man and thus make peace.

For it is through him that we, the Jews and the Gentiles, united in the one Spirit, are now able to approach the Father.

And, through union in him, you also are being built up together, to be a dwelling-place for God through the Spirit.

That, by union with Christ Jesus and through the Good News, the Gentiles are co-heirs with us and members of one Body, and that they share with us in God's Promise.

So that now to the Archangels and to all the Powers on high should be made known, through the Church, the all-embracing wisdom of God,

In accordance with that purpose which runs through all the ages and which he has now accomplished in Jesus, the Christ, our Master.

And in union with him, and through our trust in him, we find courage to approach God with confidence.

So that the Christ, through your faith, may make his home within your hearts in love; And I pray that you, now firmly rooted and established, may, with all Christ's People,

To him who, through his power which is at work within us, is able to do far more than anything that we can ask or conceive--

To him be all glory through the Church and through Christ Jesus, for all generations, age after age. Amen.

Then we shall no longer be like infants, tossed backward and forward, blown about by every breath of human teaching, through the trickery and the craftiness of men, towards the snares of error;

And through union with him were taught the Truth, as it is to be found in Jesus.

And do not grieve God's Holy Spirit; for it was through that Spirit that God sealed you as his, against the Day of Redemption.