Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
As the Church!
In the name of Jesus we are dare to proclaim:
Men are in God’s class of being!
(Psalms 8:1) O Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens!
(Psalms 8:2) Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies, that You might remove the enemy and the avenger.
(Psalms 8:3) When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have established;
(Psalms 8:4) what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?
(Psalms 8:5) For You have made him lacking a little from God, and have crowned him with glory and honor.
(Psalms 8:6) You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet:
(Psalms 8:7) all sheep and oxen, even the beasts of the field;
(Psalms 8:8) the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea passing through the paths of the seas.
(Psalms 8:9) O Jehovah, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth!
(Ephesians 1:1) Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus:
(Ephesians 1:2) Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
(Ephesians 1:3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ,
(Ephesians 1:4) just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before Him in love,
(Ephesians 1:5) having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
(Ephesians 1:6) to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved.
(Ephesians 1:7) In Him we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins, according to the riches of His grace
(Ephesians 1:8) which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and understanding,
(Ephesians 1:9) having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself,
(Ephesians 1:10) that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might sum up in one all things in Christ, both which are in Heaven and which are on earth; in Him.
(Ephesians 1:11) In Him also we have been assigned to an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,
(Ephesians 1:12) that we who previously trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.
(Ephesians 1:13) In whom also, after you heard the Word of Truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also, believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
(Ephesians 1:14) who is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
(Ephesians 1:15) Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
(Ephesians 1:16) do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers:
(Ephesians 1:17) that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full true knowledge of Him,
(Ephesians 1:18) the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
(Ephesians 1:19) and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us, who believe according to the working of His mighty power
(Ephesians 1:20) which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenlies,
(Ephesians 1:21) far above all rule and authority and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
(Ephesians 1:22) And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,
(Ephesians 1:23) which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all things in all.
(Ephesians 2:1) And you being dead in trespasses and sins,
(Ephesians 2:2) in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,
(Ephesians 2:3) among whom also we all formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others;
(Ephesians 2:4) but God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
(Ephesians 2:5) even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),
(Ephesians 2:6) and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,
(Ephesians 2:7) that in the ages to come He might display the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
(Ephesians 2:8) For by grace you are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
(Ephesians 2:9) not of works, that no one should boast.
(Ephesians 2:10) For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
(Ephesians 2:11) Therefore remember that you, being Gentiles in the flesh; who are called uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision made in the flesh by hands;
(Ephesians 2:12) that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
(Ephesians 2:13) But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been made near by the blood of Christ.
(Ephesians 2:14) For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,
(Ephesians 2:15) having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, that He might create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,
(Ephesians 2:16) and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.
(Ephesians 2:17) And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near.
(Ephesians 2:18) For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
(Ephesians 2:19) Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
(Ephesians 2:20) having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone,
(Ephesians 2:21) in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
(Ephesians 2:22) in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
(Ephesians 3:1) For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles;
(Ephesians 3:2) if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you,
(Ephesians 3:3) how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already,
(Ephesians 3:4) by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ),
(Ephesians 3:5) which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:
(Ephesians 3:6) that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and joint partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel,
(Ephesians 3:7) of which I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.
(Ephesians 3:8) To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
(Ephesians 3:9) and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;
(Ephesians 3:10) to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavenlies,
(Ephesians 3:11) according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,
(Ephesians 3:12) in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through His faith.
(Ephesians 3:13) Therefore I ask that you do not lose heart at my afflictions on your behalf, which is your glory.
(Ephesians 3:14) For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
(Ephesians 3:15) of whom the whole family in Heaven and earth is named,
(Ephesians 3:16) that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,
(Ephesians 3:17) that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
(Ephesians 3:18) may be able to grasp with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height;
(Ephesians 3:19) to know the surpassing knowledge and love of Christ; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
(Ephesians 3:20) Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
(Ephesians 3:21) to Him be glory in the church in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
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