who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you;

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ;

and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.