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Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,
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Thanksgiving and Prayer
For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people,
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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,
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he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,
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Made Alive in Christ
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
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For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—
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remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
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I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
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from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
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I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
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so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,
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From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
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They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
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You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
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to be made new in the attitude of your minds;
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Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.
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“In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry,
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Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
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This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
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speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord,
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Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
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Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
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“Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—
