He, the very one<n id="1" /> who descended, is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.

For everything made evident is light, and for this reason it says:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Awake,<n id="2" /> O sleeper!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Rise from the dead,p> <p class="poetry">and Christ will shine on you!&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Blessed<n id="1" /> is<n id="2" /> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed<n id="3" /> us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.

I pray that<n id="1" /> the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,<n id="2" /> may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation<n id="3" /> in your growing knowledge of him,<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus<n id="1" /> for the sake of you Gentiles &#8211;

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.p>

<i><b>Be angry and do not sinb>;i><n id="1" /> do not let the sun go down on the cause of your anger.<n id="2" />

for the fruit of the light<n id="1" /> consists in<n id="2" /> all goodness, righteousness, and truth &#8211;

who is the down payment<n id="1" /> of our inheritance, until the redemption of God&#8217;s own possession,<n id="2" /> to the praise of his glory.p>

<p class="bodytext">But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

When reading this,<n id="1" /> you will be able to<n id="2" /> understand my insight into this secret<n id="3" /> of Christ.

<t /><p class="bodytext">I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord,<n id="1" /> urge you to live<n id="2" /> worthily of the calling with which you have been called,<n id="3" />

Instead,<n id="1" /> be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.<n id="2" />p>

because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church &#8211; he himself being the savior of the body.

And take <i>the helmet of salvationi><n id="1" /> and the sword<n id="2" /> of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them.<n id="1" />p>

For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one<n id="1" /> and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,

Now this secret<n id="1" /> was not disclosed to people<n id="2" /> in former<n id="3" /> generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by<n id="4" /> the Spirit,

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<n id="1" /> in love, just as Christ also loved us<n id="2" /> and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering<n id="3" /> to God.