from whom every family in heaven and on the earth is named.

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

With every prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and to this end be alert, with all perseverance and requests for all the saints.

And God put all things under Christ’s feet, and he gave him to the church as head over all things.

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

you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

It was he who gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,

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

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

But you did not learn about Christ like this,

And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near,

In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

This was according to the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

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

This mystery is great – but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

because you know that each person, whether slave or free, if he does something good, this will be rewarded by the Lord.

that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.

And although you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.