In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

in which you passed your lives after the way of this world, under the sway of the Prince of the Powers of the Air, the spirit who is now working among the sons of disobedience.

to reconcile them both to God with His cross after He had killed the hostility through it.

And after coming he preached good-news, peace to you, to those far off and to those near,

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

till we, everyone - in the unity of faith, and knowledge of the son of God - grow up unto a perfect man, after the measure of age which is of the fullness of Christ:

that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

And were to put on the man of new mould, who, after God, hath been created in his truthful righteousness and loving kindness.

in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism, he might sanctify her by his word,

Ye servants, be obedient unto them who, after the flesh, are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto the Christ;

So you must take on God's full armor, so as to be able to take a stand in the day when evil attacks you, and, after having completely finished the contest, to hold your own.