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

if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord,

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

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

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.

For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

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

Now to him who by the power that is working within us is able to do far beyond all that we ask or think,

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.

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart as to Christ,