Ephesians 1
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Ephesians 1:15-20

15For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people,

16I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers;

17[I always pray] that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may grant you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation [that gives you a deep and personal and intimate insight] into the true knowledge of Him [for we know the Father through the Son].

18And [I pray] that the eyes of your heart [the very center and core of your being] may be enlightened [flooded with light by the Holy Spirit], so that you will know and cherish the hope [the divine guarantee, the confident expectation] to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints (God’s people),

19and [so that you will begin to know] what the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His [active, spiritual] power is in us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength

20which He produced in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places,

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