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.

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

But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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

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

and in all of this, by taking up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;

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

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

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.

Pray for me also, that I may be given the message when I begin to speak – that I may confidently make known the mystery of the gospel,

And when you heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation) – when you believed in Christ – you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit,

– 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.

Masters, treat your slaves the same way, giving up the use of threats, because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.