10. toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ – the things in heaven and the things on earth.
11. In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will
12. so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, would be to the praise of his glory.
13. And when you heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation) – when you believed in Christ – you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit,
14. who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
15. For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
16. I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you in my prayers.
17. I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,
18. – since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened – so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
19. and what is the incomparable greatness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of his immense strength.
20. This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms