and submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles –

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

Peace to the brothers and sisters, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will –

But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

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

When reading this, you will be able to understand my insight into this secret of Christ.

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

always giving thanks to God the Father for each other in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

not like those who do their work only when someone is watching – as people-pleasers – but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart.

From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints [in Ephesus], the faithful in Christ Jesus.

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,

To me – less than the least of all the saints – this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

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.

For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.