glorious attributes--we who were the first to fix our
hopes on Christ.
001:013 And in Him you Gentiles also, after listening to the Message
of the truth, the Good News of your salvation--having believed
in Him--were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit;
001:014 that Spirit being a pledge and foretaste of our inheritance,
in anticipation of its full redemption--the inheritance
which He has purchased to be specially His for the extolling
of His glory.
001:015 For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus
which prevails among you, and of your love for all God's people,
001:016 offer never ceasing thanks on your behalf while I make mention
of you in my prayers.
001:017 For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ--
the Father most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom
and penetration through an intimate knowledge of Him,
001:018 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened so that you
may know what is the hope which His call to you inspires,
what the wealth of the glory of His inheritance in God's people,
001:019 and what the transcendent greatness of His power in us believers
as seen in the working of His infinite might
001:020 when He displayed it in Christ by raising Him from the dead
and seating Him at His own right hand in the heavenly realms,
001:021 high above all other government and authority and power
and dominion, and every title of sovereignty used either
in this Age or in the Age to come.
001:022 God has put all things under His feet, and has appointed Him
universal and supreme Head of the Church, which is His Body,
001:023 the completeness of Him who everywhere fills the universe
with Himself.