above every principality and authority and power and lordship, and every name that is named, not only in this life but also in that to come,

And you being dead in trespasses and sins,??2 in which you formerly walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit which now operates in the children of disobedience,

For this cause I Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ for you gentiles,

To me, who am the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the nations the unsearchable riches of Christ,

For this reason I bow my knees to the Father,

But this, that he ascended, what is it but that he first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

This I say then and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the other gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds,

For you know this, that no fornicator, or impure, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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

This is a great mystery; but I speak of Christ and the church.

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

knowing that whatever good each one does, for this he shall receive from the Lord, whether a servant or a freeman.

for our conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual [hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds].

whom I have sent to you for this purpose, that you may know the things concerning us and that he may comfort your hearts.