Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish in his sight.

It is in him we have deliverance, the forgiveness of our trespasses, through his blood;

It is he in whom we Jews also have our inheritance, having been chosen beforehand according to the purpose of Him who executes all things according to the counsel of his will,

And in him, because you listened to the proclamation of the truth, the evangel of your salvation, and trusted it, you Gentiles too were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

which he exercised in raising Christ from the dead, and in seating him at his right hand in the heavenly heights,

God has put all things under Christ's feet, and placed him as Head over all in the church,

which is his body, the fulness of Him who fills the universe.

together with him He raised us from the dead, and together with Christ Jesus seated us in the heavenly realm,

because it is through him that we both have access in one spirit to the Father.

In him the whole building, fitly framed together, rises into a holy temple in the Lord;

and in him you, too, are continuously built together for a dwelling-place of God through his Spirit.

In him we have this fearless confidence and boldness of access through our faith in him.

praying him to grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in your inmost being;

Now unto him who, according to his might that is at work within us, is able to do infinitely more than all we ask or even think,

to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, to all generations, world without end, Amen.

but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ.

From him the whole body (knit together and compacted by all its joints) makes continual growth of the body so as to build itself up in love, through the energy of his bounteous provision, according to the need of each several part.

if indeed you have listened to him, and in him been taught the truth as it is in Jesus.

Let him who stole steal no more, but let him work, and in honest industry toil with his hands, so that he may have something to give to the needy.

And you masters, show the same spirit to your slaves, and stop threatening them; for you know that your masters and theirs is in heaven, and that there is no respect of persons with him.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about us, and that he may cheer your hearts.