For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which ye show toward all the saints,

far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,--

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,

(Now this, He ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?

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

For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

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

This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

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

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

whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that ye may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts.