if indeed ¹  you have heard of the stewardship ²  of God’s grace that was given to me for you,

and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image ¹  – in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth. ² 

who is the down payment ¹  of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, ²  to the praise of his glory.

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

I became a servant of this gospel ¹  according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by ²  the exercise of his power. ³ 

and to enlighten ¹  everyone about God’s secret plan ²  – a secret that has been hidden for ages ³  in God ⁴  who has created all things.

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience. ¹ 

In Christ ¹  we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, ²  since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will