Ephesians 1:15–2:8

15  Wherefore I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is in you, and the love which ye have towards all the saints, 16  do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you at my prayers, 17  that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him, 18  being enlightened in the eyes of your heart, so that ye should know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19  and what the surpassing greatness of his power towards us who believe, according to the working of the might of his strength, 20  in which he wrought in the Christ in raising him from among the dead, and he set him down at his right hand in the heavenlies, 21  above every principality, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in that to come; 22  and has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the assembly, 23  which is his body, the fulness of him who fills all in all:

Chapter 2

1  and you, being dead in your offences and sins— 2  in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience: 3  among whom we also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:

4  but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us, 5  (we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,) 6  and has raised us up together, and has made us sit down together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus, 7  that he might display in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. 8  For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is God’s gift: