For in his love he predestined us (such was the good pleasure of his will) to adoption for himself as sons through Jesus Christ,

It is in him we have deliverance, the forgiveness of our trespasses, through his blood;

I am praying that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father most glorious, may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation, through an intimate knowledge of himself;

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is God's gift.

because it is through him that we both have access in one spirit to the Father.

and in him you, too, are continuously built together for a dwelling-place of God through his Spirit.

namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles form one body with us the Jews, and are coheirs and copartners in the promise, through the gospel.

in order that now his manifold wisdom should, through the church, be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly sphere,

In him we have this fearless confidence and boldness of access through our faith in him.

that Christ may make his home in your hearts through your faith; that you may be so deeply rooted and so firmly grounded in love,

There is one body and one spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling.

There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

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

From him the whole body (knit together and compacted by all its joints) makes continual growth of the body so as to build itself up in love, through the energy of his bounteous provision, according to the need of each several part.

This then I tell you and implore you in the Master's name, to pass your lives no longer as the Gentiles do in the perverseness of their minds;

having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

Wives likewise to their husbands as to the Lord,

But as the church submits itself to Christ, so also wives to their husbands in everything.

That is how husbands ought to love their wives, as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

There is a deep mystery here?? am speaking of Christ and his church.

And you masters, show the same spirit to your slaves, and stop threatening them; for you know that your masters and theirs is in heaven, and that there is no respect of persons with him.