GOD'S WORD Translation GW
New International Version NIV
15 I, too, have heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all of God's people. For this reason
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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 never stop thanking God for you. I always remember you in my prayers.
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I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.
17 I pray that the glorious Father, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know Christ better.
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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 Then you will have deeper insight. You will know the confidence that he calls you to have and the glorious wealth that God's people will inherit.
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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 You will also know the unlimited greatness of his power as it works with might and strength for us, the believers.
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and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength
20 He worked with that same power in Christ when he brought him back to life and gave him the highest position in heaven.
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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 He is far above all rulers, authorities, powers, lords, and all other names that can be named, not only in this present 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 everything under the control of Christ. He has made Christ the head of everything for the good 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 The church is Christ's body and completes him as he fills everything in every way.
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which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
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