For this reason I also, since I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and your love to all the saints,

high above every principality and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come;

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is actively at work in the sons of disobedience:

For by grace you have been saved through the faith; and this matter is not of yourselves; it is the gift of God:

For this reason, I Paul, the prisoner of the Christ Jesus on account of you Gentiles,

to me, who am by far the least of all the saints, has this grace been given, that I might preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of the Christ,

For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

But this He ascended what does it mean, but that he also descended into the lower earthly regions?

This I say, therefore, and appeal to you solemnly in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the other Gentiles walk, in the error of their minds,

For you know this, that no lewd nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and of God.

For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

Great is this mystery; but I speak of Christ and of the church.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

for our conflict is not with flesh and blood, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the rulers of the darkness of this world, with the wicked spirits in the heavenly regions.

praying with all prayer and supplication, at all times, in the Spirit; and to this end being watchful in all perseverance, and supplication for all the saints:

him I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know our affairs, and that he may comfort your hearts.