by fitting your feet with the preparation that comes from the good news of peace,

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

He did this when he revealed to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

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

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

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

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

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

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

namely, that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.

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

Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

But all things being exposed by the light are made evident.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.