I pray that your minds will be enlightened so that you will know what the hope is, to which God has called you, and what the glorious abundance is, of God's inheritance in the saints [Note: Paul wanted them to appreciate the value God placed on them],

and what God's tremendous power [working] in us believers is. [This power is] the same as that utilized by God's mighty strength,

For Christ is [the source of] our peace. He made both [Jews and Gentiles] one people, and broke down the barrier wall of hostility that divided them,

This is the reason that I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles, [pray for you. See 3:14-19].

I was made a minister [of the Gospel] according to the gift of God's unearned favor, which was given to me according to the working of His power.

[I pray] that, according to God's glorious abundance, He would empower you to become [spiritually] strong through His Holy Spirit in your inner person,

so that Christ will live in your hearts through faith. [I pray] that you will be rooted and grounded in [your] love,

May there be to God, who is able to do infinitely more [for us] than we could [even] ask or think, according to [His] power at work in us ---

Finally, be [spiritually] strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.

And [also pray] for me to be given boldness of speech in opening my mouth to make known the secret plan of the Gospel,

for which I am an ambassador in prison. [And pray] that I may be able to proclaim the Gospel boldly, as I ought to.