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The Book of Ephesians, Chapter 1, Verse 15

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Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
King James Version
Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
American Standard Version
cease not to give thanks for you, making mention [of you] in my prayers;
New English Translation
For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.
World English Bible
For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,
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That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
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The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
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And what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
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Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set [him] at his own right hand in the heavenly [places],
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Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
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And hath put all [things] under his feet, and gave him [to be] the head over all [things] to the church,
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Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
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And you [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and sins;
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Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
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Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.