Once you were alienated
and hostile in your minds because of your evil actions. But now He has
reconciled you by His physical body through His death, to present you holy,
faultless, and blameless before Him — if indeed you remain grounded and
steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel
that you heard.
For this reason also,
since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking
that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual
understanding, so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him,
bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God. May you
be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all
endurance and patience, with joy giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled
you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light. He has rescued us from
the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son He loves.
We have redemption, the forgiveness of sins, in Him.
We
are rooted in Him, we are alive in Him, we are hidden in Him, and are complete
in Him.
We
cannot live life without Him.
Surrounded
by His love, and with His peace ruling in our hearts, we are equipped to make
our Lord first in every area of life.
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