37 For this reason resumes the point begun in v. 1, after a long parenthesis.
38 Grk “I bend my knees.”
39 Most Western and Byzantine witnesses, along with a few others (א2 D F G Ψ 0278 1881 𝔐 lat sy), have “of our Lord Jesus Christ” after “Father,” but such an edifying phrase cannot explain the rise of the reading that lacks it, especially when the shorter reading is attested by early and important witnesses such as 𝔓46 א* A B C P 6 33 81 365 1175 1739 co Or Hier.
40 Or “by.”
41 Or “the whole family.”

In other versions

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.

For this reason I kneel before the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.

When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth.

On account of this, I bend my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

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