be glory through the church and through Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever. Amen.

For it is by grace [God’s remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ] that you have been saved [actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life] through faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [not through your own effort], but it is the [undeserved, gracious] gift of God;

and [that you may come] to know [practically, through personal experience] the love of Christ which far surpasses [mere] knowledge [without experience], that you may be filled up [throughout your being] to all the fullness of God [so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself].

In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,

according as he had chosen us in him through love, before the foundation of the world was laid, that we should be saints, and without blame before him, through love.

But now through your union with Christ Jesus you who were once far away have through the blood of Christ been brought near.

through His human nature He has put a stop to the hostility between us, namely, the law with its commands and decrees, in order to create one new humanity out of the two parties and so make peace through union with Himself, and in one body

that the heathen through union with Christ Jesus are fellow-heirs with the Jews, are members with them of the same body, and sharers with them of the promise through the good news,

From now on you must grow stronger through union with the Lord and through His mighty power.

Through him every part of the building is closely united and grows into a temple sacred through its relation to the Lord,

Through union with him and through faith in him, we have courage to approach God with confidence.

darkened in understanding; alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them; through the blindness of their hearts:

because it is through Him that Jews and Gentiles alike have access through one Spirit to the Father.

that we might no longer be children, tossed and carried about by every wind of teaching, through the artifice of men, through craftiness used by them for the deliberate planning of deceit;

And, through union in him, you also are being built up together, to be a dwelling-place for God through the Spirit.

And might fully reconcile them both, in one body, through means of the cross, - slaying the enmity thereby; -

In order that now, unto the principalities and the authorities in the heavenlies, might be made known, through means of the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God, -

In order that he may give unto you - according to his glorious riches, with power, to be strengthened, through his Spirit, in the inner man,

That the Christ may dwell, through means of your faith, in your hearts, in love, having become rooted and founded,

One God and Father of all - who is over all, and through all, and in all.

Out of whom all the body - fitly framing itself together, and connecting itself, through means of every joint of supply, by way of energising in the measure of each single part - secureth the growing of the body, unto an upbuilding of itself in love.

He predestined and lovingly planned for us to be adopted to Himself as [His own] children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the kind intention and good pleasure of His will—

[and He did this] so that in the ages to come He might [clearly] show the immeasurable and unsurpassed riches of His grace in [His] kindness toward us in Christ Jesus [by providing for our redemption].

and to make plain [to everyone] the plan of the mystery [regarding the uniting of believing Jews and Gentiles into one body] which [until now] was kept hidden through the ages in [the mind of] God who created all things.

So I ask you not to lose heart at my sufferings on your behalf, for they are your glory and honor.

that, regarding your previous way of life, you put off your old self [completely discard your former nature], which is being corrupted through deceitful desires,

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God [but seek to please Him], by whom you were sealed and marked [branded as God’s own] for the day of redemption [the final deliverance from the consequences of sin].

Let no one deceive you with empty arguments [that encourage you to sin], for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience [those who habitually sin].