10. so that the manifold wisdom of God may become well-known to the principalities and powers in the heavens, through the Church,
11. according to that timeless purpose, which he has formed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12. In him we trust, and so we approach with confidence, through his faith.
13. Because of this, I ask you not to be weakened by my tribulations on your behalf; for this is your glory.
14. By reason of this grace, I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15. from whom all paternity in heaven and on earth takes its name.
16. And I ask him to grant to you to be strengthened in virtue by his Spirit, in accord with the wealth of his glory, in the inner man,
17. so that Christ may live in your hearts through a faith rooted in, and founded on, charity.
18. So may you be able to embrace, with all the saints, what is the width and length and height and depth
19. of the charity of Christ, and even be able to know that which surpasses all knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
20. Now to him who is able to do all things, more abundantly than we could ever ask or understand, by means of the virtue which is at work in us: