For this reason I also, from the time when I heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which prevails among you, and your love to all the saints,

far above all hierarchies and authorities and powers and dominions and every name that is named, not only in this age but in that which is to come.

in which you passed your lives after the way of this world, under the sway of the Prince of the Powers of the Air, the spirit who is now working among the sons of disobedience.

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles??2 for surely you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God entrusted to me for you?

It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power.

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

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

For this cause I bend my knees before the Father,

Now surely this "he ascended" implies that he also descended into the lower part of the earth.

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;

For this reason it is said, "Awake, thou sleeper! Arise from the dead; And Christ shall shine upon thee!"

For this reason do not be thoughtless, but learn to know what the Lord's will is.

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

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

Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise attached),

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about us, and that he may cheer your hearts.