it is not from works, so that no one can boast.

But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

so that through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

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

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

so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, would be to the praise of his glory.

So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them.

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

So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

For this reason, take up the full armor of God so that you may be able to stand your ground on the evil day, and having done everything, to stand.

The one who steals must steal no longer; rather he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need.

Tychicus, my dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make everything known to you, so that you too may know about my circumstances, how I am doing.

– 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,

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh – who are called “uncircumcision” by the so-called “circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands –

But you did not learn about Christ like this,

In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

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