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.

in whom we have boldness and confident access to God because of Christ's faithfulness.

For this reason I ask you not to lose heart because of what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.

from whom every family in heaven and on the earth is named.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

This mystery is great -- but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may be able to speak boldly as I ought to speak.

Tychicus, my dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make everything known to you, so that you too may know about my circumstances, how I am doing.