“that it may go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.”

Obey with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord and not people,

Finally, be strengthened in the Lord and in the strength of his power.

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

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,

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.

For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love.

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

even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are saved! –

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

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

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

Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he captured captives; he gave gifts to men.”

Now what is the meaning of “he ascended,” except that he also descended to the lower regions, namely, the earth?

He, the very one who descended, is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.

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

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

Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.

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.