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

far above all principality, 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 in times past ye walked after the fashion of this world, after the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now worketh with energy in the children of disobedience:

For by grace ye are saved through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God:

FOR this cause [am] I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

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

Now this, that he ascended, what does it imply? but that he also first descended into the more internal parts of the earth?

This then I urge and testify in the Lord, that ye walk no more as the other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind,

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, or impure person, or avaricious, who is an idolater, hath an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

For this reason shall a man forsake his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and the two shall be as one flesh.

This mystery is great: but I am speaking with regard to Christ, and with regard to the church.

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

For our conflict is not merely against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and against powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against wicked spirits in the aerial regions.

praying at every opportunity with all prayer and supplication in Spirit, and watching for this very purpose with perseverance and intercession for all the saints;

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