in union with whom we were made God's portion, since we had been foreordained in accordance with the purpose of Him who in everything carries out the plan of His will,

that we who had first put our hope in Christ might praise His glory.

And so He has put all things under His feet and made Him the supreme Head of the church,

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

so that you with all God's people may be strong enough to grasp the idea of the breadth and length, the height and depth,

What does "He went up" mean, except that He had first gone down into the lower regions of the earth?

But, on the other hand, we shall go on holding to the truth and in love growing up into perfect union with Him, that is, Christ Himself who is the Head.

for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the Head of the church, His body, and Saviour of it.