Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love

He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ in accordance to his pleasure and will-

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people.

and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength.

he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms.

far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also the one to come.

And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.