Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: