Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all the spiritual blessings in Christ's kingdom.

an enlightned understanding, that ye may see what great expectations he has called you to, and what abundant glory it is to the saints to be the lot of his inheritance.

it is the gift of God) but not by works, so that no man can boast:

Therefore now, you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and domesticks of God's family,

if so be you have heard of the charge, which God has graciously dispens'd to me for you Gentiles;

so that your souls may be possess'd with faith in Christ.

This I say therefore, and conjure you by the Lord not to live for the future as other Gentiles do, in the vanity of their minds,

be mutually kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

See then that you behave circumspectly, and not as fools, but as wise,

as the church then is subordinate to Christ, so let women be to their husbands upon all occasions.

that he himself might make her appear illustrious to his own eye, a church without spot, or any thing like a defect; so as to be holy and irreprehensible.