Letter to the Ephesians

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

don't cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience;

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,