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15 Ever since I first heard of your strong faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for God’s people everywhere,
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For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people,
16 I have not stopped thanking God for you. I pray for you constantly,
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I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.
17 asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God.
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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.
18 I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance.
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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,
19 I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power
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and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength
20 that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms.
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he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,
21 Now he is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else—not only in this world but also in the world to come.
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far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.
22 God has put all things under the authority of Christ and has made him head over all things for the benefit of the church.
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And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church,
23 And the church is his body; it is made full and complete by Christ, who fills all things everywhere with himself.
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which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
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