For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

in whom we have boldness and confident access to God because of Christ's faithfulness.

For this reason I ask you not to lose heart because of what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,

They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God's wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

taking advantage of every opportunity, because the days are evil.

because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church -- he himself being the savior of the body.

because you know that each person, whether slave or free, if he does something good, this will be rewarded by the Lord.

Masters, treat your slaves the same way, giving up the use of threats, because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.