because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,

Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,

because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

praying at the same time also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the secret of the Christ, because of which also I have been bound,