Ephesians 3:14-21

Contemporary English Version

Christ's Love for Us

¹⁴I kneel in prayer to the Father. ¹⁵All beings in heaven and on earth receive their life from him.^[a] ¹⁶God is wonderful and glorious. I pray that his Spirit will make you become strong followers ¹⁷and that Christ will live in your hearts because of your faith. Stand firm and be deeply rooted in his love. ¹⁸^(A) I pray that you and all God's people will understand what is called wide or long or high or deep.^[b] ¹⁹I want you to know all about Christ's love, although it is too wonderful to be measured. Then your lives will be filled with all that God is.

^20-21I pray that Christ Jesus and the church will forever bring praise to God. His power at work in us can do far more than we dare ask or imagine. Amen.

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Footnotes

3.15 receive their life from him: Or “know who they really are because of him.”
3.18 what is called wide or long or high or deep: This may refer to the heavenly Jerusalem or to God's love or wisdom or to the meaning of the cross.