Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ – the things in heaven and the things on earth.

making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,

and to enlighten everyone about God’s secret plan – a secret that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.

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.

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

Clothe yourselves with the full armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

– since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened – so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

and what is the incomparable greatness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of his immense strength.

I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power.

The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God – a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature.

to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.

Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.

if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you,