so that we might praise the splendid blessing which he has given us through his beloved Son.

He has put everything under his feet and made him the indisputable head of the church,

he made us, dead as we were through our offenses, live again with the Christ. It is by his mercy that you have been saved.

And he raised us with Christ, and through our union with Christ Jesus made us sit down with him in heaven,

For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.

This is why I, Paul, whom Jesus the Christ has made a prisoner for the sake of you heathen??2 if at least you have heard how I dealt with the mercy of God that was given me for you,

and how the secret was made known to me by revelation, as I have just briefly written.

so that the many-sided wisdom of God may now through the church be made known to the rulers and authorities in heaven,

yet when anything is exposed by the light, it is made visible, and anything that is made visible is light.