He predestined and lovingly planned for us to be adopted to Himself as [His own] children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the kind intention and good pleasure of His will—

which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and understanding [with practical insight]

He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him

They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor [perpetual animosity, resentment, strife, fault-finding] and slander be put away from you, along with every kind of malice [all spitefulness, verbal abuse, malevolence].

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought not to be named among God's people.

Live and act as sons of Light--for the effect of the Light is seen in every kind of goodness, uprightness and truth--

and might present the church to himself in all its glory, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, but holy and without fault.

Pray in the Spirit at all times with every kind of prayer and request. Likewise, be alert with your most diligent efforts and pray for all the saints.