because of the hope reserved for you in heaven, which you have heard about beforehand in the word of truth, the gospel,

Because of this also we, from the day we heard about [it], did not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled [with] the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual insight,

because all [things] in the heavens and on the earth were created by him, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers, all [things] were created through him and for him,

because he was well pleased [for] all the fullness to dwell in him,

And {although you were formerly alienated} and enemies in attitude, because of your evil deeds,

because in him all the fullness of deity dwells bodily,

because of which the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,

Do not lie to one another, [because you] have taken off the old man together with his deeds,

[because you] know that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. Serve the Lord Christ.