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his best wishes. He is a slave of Christ Jesus who is always very earnest in his prayers for you. He prays that you may stand firm as mature followers of the Lord, and be fully assured of everything God desires you to do. For I am a witness to the deep interest he takes in you and in those in Laodicea and in those in Hierapolis.

Luke our dear doctor sends you his best wishes, and so does Demas.

Give my best wishes to the brothers in Laodicea, and to Nymphas and the Church which is in their house. And when this letter has been read among you, see that it is also read in the Laodicean Church; and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

Say to Archippus: "See that you discharge to the best of your ability the work which you undertook as a follower of the Lord."

I, Paul, send you my best wishes in my own handwriting.

Remember my imprisonment.

May the divine favor be with you.

EPHESIANS.

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And Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who blessed us once for all with every spiritual

blessing

In heaven and in Christ,

Just as he once for all chose us in him

Before the creation of the world,

To be devoted to himself and blameless in his

sight.

For, in his love, he had once for all determined

That we should become his sons through Jesus

Christ,

In fulfilment of the kindly purpose of his will,
And that we should win praise

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For the majestic character of the favor
Which he kindly bestowed on us in his dear
Son.

It is in him and through his death we have deliverance,

That is, the putting away of our offences.

This is in harmony with the wealth of the divine favor

Which God heaped on us,

With every kind of wisdom and prudence, When he once for all made known to us

The secret truth concerning his will.

And it is also in harmony with the kindly pur

pose,

Which God formed once for all in him,

To bring everything together again in the Christ,

When the times are ripe for it,

Everything in heaven and everything on earth: In the Christ, I say, in whom we became God's possession,

To which we had already been appointed, In the intention of him who does everything Just as the deliberate purpose of his will determines,

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