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

So that in the coming ages he might show the transcending wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

not from works, so that not any man may boast.

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

So then ye are no more alien and foreign, but fellow citizens of the sanctified, and belonging to the household of God.

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages in God who created all things through Jesus Christ.

So that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principal offices and the positions of authority in the heavenly things, through the church,

So that he would grant you, according to the wealth of his glory, to be strengthened with power through his Spirit for the inner man.

having been rooted and grounded in love, so that ye may be able to grasp with all the sanctified what is the breadth and length and depth and height,

and to become aware of the love of the Christ, which transcends knowledge, so that ye may be filled in all the fullness of God.

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

So that we may no longer be childish, tossed about and carried about by every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in craftiness with the methodology of error.

This I say therefore, and solemnly declare in Lord, for you to walk no longer as also the other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

But ye did not so learn the Christ,

Let the man who steals steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the good, so that he may have to give to him who has need.

Let no corrupt speech go out of your mouth, rather if there is any good word for edification of a need, so that it may give grace to those who hear.

But as the church is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything.

so that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the washing of water by the word,

so that he might present it to himself, the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and unblemished.

So ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Nevertheless ye also, each one in particular, shall so love his own wife as himself, and the wife that she fear her husband.

so that it may become well with thee, and thou will be long lasting on the earth.

Because of this take ye up the full armor of God, so that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

and for me, so that utterance may be given to me in boldness in opening my mouth to make known the mystery of the good-news,

for which I am an ambassador in bondage, so that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

Whom I sent to you for this same thing, so that ye might know the things about us, and that he might encourage your hearts.