far above every rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest

in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

Now what is the meaning of "he ascended," except that he also descended to the lower regions, namely, the earth?

He, the very one who descended, is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.

Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church -- he himself being the savior of the body.

But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Pray for me also, that I may be given the message when I begin to speak -- that I may confidently make known the mystery of the gospel,