in whom we were also chosen by lot, having been predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things within us according to the counsel of his own will;

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

Therefore I also, having heard of the faith among you in the Lord Jesus, and your love which is toward all the saints,

among whom we all indeed at one time lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the thoughts, and we were by nature the children of wrath, like the rest also:

in whom also you are built together into a habitation of God in the Spirit.

Therefore I say this, and witness in the Lord, that you no longer walk about as the Gentiles also walk about in the vanity of their mind,

and walk about in divine love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet savor.

because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is also the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

But as the church is submissive to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her;

for no one ever yet hated his own flesh; but he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church;

Moreover you also each one thus love his own wife with divine love as himself; and that the wife also reverence the husband.

But in order that you may also know the things concerning me, how I am doing, Tychicus, my beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make known to you: