¹⁸ Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise^(A) by the standards of this age,^(B) you should become “fools” so that you may become wise.

¹⁷ so that Christ may dwell in your hearts^(A) through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted^(B) and established in love, ¹⁸ may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people,^(C) to grasp how wide and long and high and deep^(D) is the love of Christ, ¹⁹ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge^(E)—that you may be filled^(F) to the measure of all the fullness of God.^(G)

⁸ What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing^(A) Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ^(B)