Exodus 7-9

New American Standard Bible

I Will Extend My Hand

7 Then the Lord said to Moses, “^(A)See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. ²As for you, you shall speak all that I command you, and your brother ^(B)Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land. ³But ^(C)I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, so that I may ^(D)multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. ⁴When ^(E)Pharaoh does not listen to you, I will lay My hand on Egypt and ^(F)bring out My armies, My people the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt by ^(G)great judgments. ⁵Then ^(H)the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I ^(I)extend My hand over Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst.” ⁶So Moses and Aaron did this; ^(J)as the Lord commanded them, so they did. ⁷And Moses was ^(K)eighty years old and Aaron ^[a]eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Aaron’s Staff Turns into a Serpent

⁸Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ⁹“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘^[b]^(L)Work a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘^(M)Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, so that it may turn into a serpent.’” ¹⁰So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and so they did, just as the Lord had commanded; and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and ^[c]his servants, and it ^(N)turned into a serpent. ¹¹Then Pharaoh also ^(O)called for the wise men and the sorcerers, and they too, the ^(P)soothsayer priests of Egypt, did the same with ^(Q)their secret arts. ¹²For each one threw down his staff, and they turned into serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs. ¹³Yet ^(R)Pharaoh’s heart was ^[d]hardened, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

Water Turned into Blood

¹⁴Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is ^[e]stubborn; he refuses to let the people go. ¹⁵Go to Pharaoh in the morning ^[f]just as ^(S)he is going out to the water, and position yourself to meet him on the bank of the Nile; and you shall take in your hand ^(T)the staff that was turned into a serpent. ¹⁶And ^(U)you shall say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “^(V)Let My people go, so that they may serve Me in the wilderness. But behold, you have not listened up to now.” ¹⁷This is what the Lord says: “^(W)By this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, I am going to strike ^[g]the water that is in the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and ^(X)it will be turned into blood. ¹⁸Then ^(Y)the fish that are in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will ^[h]^(Z)no longer be able to drink water from the Nile.”’” ¹⁹Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and ^(AA)extend your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their ^[i]streams, over their pools, and over all their reservoirs of water, so that they may become blood; and there will be blood through all the land of Egypt, both in containers of wood and in containers of stone.’”

²⁰So Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord had commanded. And he lifted up ^[j]^(AB)the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants; and ^(AC)all the water that was in the Nile was turned into blood. ²¹Then the fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt. ²²^(AD)But the soothsayer priests of Egypt did the same with their secret arts; and Pharaoh’s heart was ^[k]hardened, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had said. ²³Then Pharaoh turned and went into his house ^[l]with no concern even for this. ²⁴So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink from the water of the Nile. ²⁵Seven days ^[m]passed after the Lord had struck the Nile.

Frogs over the Land

8 ^[n]Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “^(AE)Let My people go, so that they may serve Me. ²But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I am going to strike your entire territory with frogs. ³The Nile will ^(AF)swarm with frogs, which will come up and go into your house, and into your bedroom and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls. ⁴So the frogs will come up on you, your people, and on all your servants.”’” ⁵^[o]Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘^(AG)Extend your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the ^[p]streams, and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’” ⁶So Aaron extended his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the ^[q]^(AH)frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. ⁷However, ^(AI)the soothsayer priests did the same with their secret arts, ^[r]making frogs come up on the land of Egypt.

⁸Then Pharaoh ^(AJ)called for Moses and Aaron and said, “^(AK)Plead with the Lord ^[s]to remove the frogs from me and from my people; and ^(AL)I will let the people go, so that they may sacrifice to the Lord.” ⁹And Moses said to Pharaoh, “^[t]The honor is yours to tell me: when shall I plead for you and your servants and your people, ^[u]that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, that they be left only in the Nile?”

¹⁰Then he said, “Tomorrow.” So he said, “May it be according to your word, so that you may know that there is ^(AM)no one like the Lord our God. ¹¹The ^(AN)frogs will depart from you and your houses, and from your servants and your people; they will be left only in the Nile.” ¹²Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and ^(AO)Moses cried out to the Lord concerning the frogs which He had ^[v]inflicted upon Pharaoh. ¹³The Lord did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, the courtyards, and the fields. ¹⁴So they piled them in heaps, and the land stank. ¹⁵But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he ^[w]hardened his heart and ^(AP)did not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

The Plague of Insects

¹⁶Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Extend your staff and strike the dust of the earth, so that it may turn into ^[x]gnats through all the land of Egypt.’” ¹⁷They did so; and Aaron extended his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and there were ^[y]gnats on every ^[z]person and animal. All the dust of the earth turned into ^[aa]^(AQ)gnats through all the land of Egypt. ¹⁸The soothsayer priests tried with their secret arts to produce ^[ab]gnats, but ^(AR)they could not; so there were ^[ac]gnats on every person and animal. ¹⁹Then the soothsayer priests said to Pharaoh, “^(AS)This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was ^[ad]hardened, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

²⁰Then the Lord said to Moses, “^(AT)Rise early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh, ^[ae]as ^(AU)he comes out to the water; and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “^(AV)Let My people go, so that they may serve Me. ²¹For if you are not going to let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and on your servants and on your people, and into your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they live. ²²^(AW)But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where My people are ^[af]living, so that no swarms of flies will be there, in order that you may know that ^[ag]^(AX)I, the Lord, am in the midst of the land. ²³I will ^[ah]put a division between My people and your people. Tomorrow this sign will occur.”’” ²⁴Then the Lord did so. And ^[ai]thick swarms of flies entered the house of Pharaoh and the houses of his servants, and the land was ^(AY)laid waste because of the swarms of flies in all the land of Egypt.

²⁵Then Pharaoh ^(AZ)called for Moses and Aaron and said, “^(BA)Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.” ²⁶But Moses said, “It is not permissible for us to do so, because we will sacrifice to the Lord our God ^[aj]that which is ^(BB)an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice ^[ak]that which is an abomination to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us? ²⁷We must go a ^(BC)three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God, just as He ^[al]commands us.” ²⁸Pharaoh said, “^(BD)I will let you go, so that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. ^(BE)Plead for me.” ²⁹Then Moses said, “Behold, I am going to leave you, and I will plead with the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow; only do not let Pharaoh ^(BF)deal deceitfully again in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.”

³⁰So ^(BG)Moses left Pharaoh and pleaded with the Lord. ³¹The Lord did ^[am]as Moses asked, and removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one remained. ³²But Pharaoh ^[an]hardened his heart this time also, and ^(BH)he did not let the people go.

Egyptian Livestock Die

9 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and speak to him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews says: “^(BI)Let My people go, so that they may serve Me. ²For ^(BJ)if you refuse to let them go and ^[ao]continue to hold them, ³behold, ^(BK)the hand of the Lord ^[ap]will come with a very severe plague on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks. ⁴^(BL)But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that ^(BM)nothing will die of all that belongs to the sons of Israel.”’” ⁵And the Lord set a definite time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.” ⁶So the Lord did this thing on the next day, and ^(BN)all the livestock of Egypt died; ^(BO)but not one of the livestock of the sons of Israel died. ⁷And Pharaoh sent men, and they learned that, behold, not even one of the livestock of Israel was dead. But ^(BP)the heart of Pharaoh was ^[aq]hardened, and he did not let the people go.

The Plague of Boils

⁸Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take for yourselves handfuls of soot from a kiln, and Moses shall toss it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh. ⁹Then it will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and will turn into ^(BQ)boils breaking out with sores on every person and animal through all the land of Egypt.” ¹⁰So they took soot from a kiln, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses tossed it toward the sky, and it became boils breaking out with sores on every person and animal. ¹¹^(BR)The soothsayer priests could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the soothsayer priests as well as on all the Egyptians. ¹²But ^(BS)the Lord ^[ar]hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had spoken to Moses.

¹³Then the Lord said to Moses, “^(BT)Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews says: “^(BU)Let My people go, so that they may serve Me. ¹⁴For this time I am going to send all My plagues ^[as]on you and your servants and your people, so that ^(BV)you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth. ¹⁵For had I now put out My hand and struck you and your people with plague, you would then have been eliminated from the earth. ¹⁶But indeed, ^(BW)for this reason I have allowed you to ^[at]remain, in order to show you My power and in order to proclaim My name throughout the earth. ¹⁷Still you exalt yourself against My people ^[au]by not letting them go.

The Plague of Hail

¹⁸Behold, about this time tomorrow, ^(BX)I will ^[av]send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded ^[aw]until now. ¹⁹So now, send word, bring ^(BY)your livestock and whatever you have in the field to safety. ^(BZ)Every person and animal that is found in the field and is not brought home, when the hail comes down on them, will die.”’” ²⁰^(CA)Everyone among the servants of Pharaoh who ^[ax]feared the word of the Lord hurried to bring his servants and his livestock into the houses; ²¹but everyone who ^[ay]did not pay regard to the word of the Lord ^[az]left his servants and his livestock in the field.

²²Now the Lord said to Moses, “Reach out with your hand toward the sky, so that ^[ba]^(CB)hail may fall on all the land of Egypt, on every person and animal, and on every plant of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.” ²³So Moses reached out with his staff toward the sky, and the Lord ^[bb]sent ^[bc]thunder and ^(CC)hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt. ²⁴So there was hail, and fire flashing intermittently in the midst of the hail, which was very heavy, such as had not occurred in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. ²⁵^(CD)The hail struck everything that was in the field through all the land of Egypt, from people to animals; the hail also struck every plant of the field, and shattered every tree of the field. ²⁶^(CE)Only in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel were, was there no hail.

²⁷Then Pharaoh ^[bd]^(CF)sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “^(CG)I have sinned this time; the Lord is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones. ²⁸^(CH)Plead with the Lord, for there has been enough of God’s ^[be]thunder and hail; and ^(CI)I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.” ²⁹Moses said to him, “As soon as I go out of the city, I will ^(CJ)spread out my ^[bf]hands to the Lord; the ^[bg]thunder will cease and there will no longer be hail, so that you may know that ^(CK)the earth is the Lord’s. ³⁰^(CL)But as for you and your servants, I know that ^(CM)you do not yet ^[bh]fear ^[bi]the Lord God.” ³¹(Now the flax and the ^(CN)barley were ^[bj]ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud. ³²But the wheat and the spelt were not ^[bk]ruined, for they ripen late.) ³³^(CO)So Moses left the city from his meeting with Pharaoh, and spread out his ^[bl]hands to the Lord; and the ^[bm]thunder and the hail stopped, and rain ^[bn]no longer poured on the earth. ³⁴But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the ^[bo]thunder had stopped, he sinned again and ^[bp]hardened his heart, he and his servants. ³⁵So Pharaoh’s heart was ^[bq]hardened, and he did not let the sons of Israel go, just as the ^(CP)Lord had spoken through Moses.

Footnotes

Exodus 7:7 Lit 83 years old
Exodus 7:9 Lit Show a wonder for yourselves
Exodus 7:10 Lit before his
Exodus 7:13 Lit strong
Exodus 7:14 Or hard; lit heavy
Exodus 7:15 Lit behold
Exodus 7:17 Lit upon the waters
Exodus 7:18 Lit be weary of
Exodus 7:19 Or canals
Exodus 7:20 Lit with the staff
Exodus 7:22 Lit strong
Exodus 7:23 Lit and he did not set his heart even to this
Exodus 7:25 Lit were fulfilled
Exodus 8:1 Ch 7:26 in Heb
Exodus 8:5 Ch 8:1 in Heb
Exodus 8:5 Or canals
Exodus 8:6 Lit frog
Exodus 8:7 Lit and made
Exodus 8:8 Lit that He remove
Exodus 8:9 Lit Glory over me
Exodus 8:9 Lit cut off the frogs from
Exodus 8:12 Lit placed
Exodus 8:15 Lit made heavy
Exodus 8:16 Or lice
Exodus 8:17 Or lice
Exodus 8:17 I.e., Egyptians and their livestock
Exodus 8:17 Or lice
Exodus 8:18 Or lice
Exodus 8:18 Or lice
Exodus 8:19 Lit strong
Exodus 8:20 Lit behold
Exodus 8:22 Lit standing
Exodus 8:22 Or I am the Lord in the midst of the earth
Exodus 8:23 Lit set a ransom
Exodus 8:24 Lit heavy
Exodus 8:26 Lit the abomination of Egypt
Exodus 8:26 Lit the abomination of Egypt
Exodus 8:27 Lit says to us
Exodus 8:31 Lit according to the word of Moses
Exodus 8:32 Lit made heavy
Exodus 9:2 Lit still hold
Exodus 9:3 Lit will be
Exodus 9:7 Lit heavy
Exodus 9:12 Lit made strong
Exodus 9:14 Lit to your heart
Exodus 9:16 Lit stand
Exodus 9:17 Lit so as not to let
Exodus 9:18 Lit cause to rain
Exodus 9:18 Lit and until now
Exodus 9:20 Or revered
Exodus 9:21 Lit did not set his heart to
Exodus 9:21 Lit then left
Exodus 9:22 Lit there may be hail
Exodus 9:23 Lit gave
Exodus 9:23 Lit sounds
Exodus 9:27 Lit sent and called
Exodus 9:28 Lit sounds
Exodus 9:29 Lit palms
Exodus 9:29 Lit sounds
Exodus 9:30 Or revere
Exodus 9:30 Lit before the Lord
Exodus 9:31 Lit struck
Exodus 9:32 Lit struck
Exodus 9:33 Lit palms
Exodus 9:33 Lit sounds
Exodus 9:33 Lit was not poured
Exodus 9:34 Lit sounds
Exodus 9:34 Lit made heavy
Exodus 9:35 Lit strong

Psalm 105

New American Standard Bible

The Lord’s Wonderful Works in Behalf of Israel.

105 ^(A)Give thanks to the Lord, ^(B)call upon His name;
^(C)Make His deeds known among the peoples.
²Sing to Him, ^(D)sing praises to Him;
^[a]^(E)Tell of all His ^[b]wonders.
³Boast in His holy name;
May the ^(F)heart of those who seek the Lord be joyful.
⁴Seek the Lord and ^(G)His strength;
^(H)Seek His face continually.
⁵Remember His ^[c]^(I)wonders which He has done,
His marvels and the ^(J)judgments ^[d]spoken by His mouth,
⁶You ^[e]descendants of ^(K)Abraham, His servant,
You sons of ^(L)Jacob, His ^(M)chosen ones!
⁷He is the Lord our God;
His ^(N)judgments are in all the earth.

⁸He has ^(O)remembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded to a ^(P)thousand generations,
⁹The ^(Q)covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His ^(R)oath to Isaac.
¹⁰Then He ^(S)confirmed it to Jacob as a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
¹¹Saying, “^(T)To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the ^[f]^(U)portion of your inheritance,”
¹²When they were only a ^(V)few people in number,
Very few, and ^(W)strangers in it.
¹³And they wandered from nation to nation,
From one kingdom to another people,
¹⁴He ^(X)allowed no one to oppress them,
And He ^[g]^(Y)rebuked kings for their sakes, saying,
¹⁵“^(Z)Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do not harm My prophets.”

¹⁶And He ^(AA)called for a famine upon the land;
He ^(AB)broke the whole staff of bread.
¹⁷He ^(AC)sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was ^(AD)sold as a slave.
¹⁸They forced his ^(AE)feet into shackles,
^[h]He was put in irons;
¹⁹Until the time that his ^(AF)word came to pass,
The word of the Lord ^(AG)refined him.
²⁰The ^(AH)king sent and released him,
The ruler of peoples, and set him free.
²¹He ^(AI)made him lord of his house,
And ruler over all his possessions,
²²To ^[i]imprison his high officials ^[j]^(AJ)at will,
That he might teach his elders wisdom.
²³^(AK)Israel also came into Egypt;
So Jacob ^(AL)lived in the land of Ham.
²⁴And He ^(AM)made His people very fruitful,
And made them stronger than their enemies.

²⁵He ^(AN)turned their heart to hate His people,
To ^(AO)deal cunningly with His servants.
²⁶He ^(AP)sent His servant Moses,
And ^(AQ)Aaron, whom He had chosen.
²⁷They ^[k]^(AR)performed His wondrous acts among them,
And miracles in the land of Ham.
²⁸He ^(AS)sent darkness and made it dark;
And they did not ^(AT)rebel against His words.
²⁹He ^(AU)turned their waters into blood,
And caused their fish to die.
³⁰Their land swarmed with ^(AV)frogs
Even in the ^(AW)chambers of their kings.
³¹He spoke, and a ^(AX)swarm of flies
And ^(AY)gnats invaded all their territory.
³²He ^[l]gave them ^(AZ)hail for rain,
And flaming fire in their land.
³³He also ^(BA)struck their vines and their fig trees,
And smashed the trees of their territory.
³⁴He spoke, and ^(BB)locusts came,
And creeping locusts, beyond number,
³⁵And they ate all the vegetation in their land,
And ate the fruit of their ground.
³⁶He also ^(BC)fatally struck all the firstborn in their land,
The ^(BD)first fruits of all their vigor.

³⁷Then He brought ^[m]the Israelites out with ^(BE)silver and gold,
And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.
³⁸Egypt was ^(BF)glad when they departed,
For the ^(BG)dread of them had fallen upon ^[n]the Egyptians.
³⁹He spread out a ^(BH)cloud as a ^[o]covering,
And ^(BI)fire to illumine by night.
⁴⁰^[p]They ^(BJ)asked, and He brought ^(BK)quail,
And satisfied them with the ^[q]^(BL)bread of heaven.
⁴¹He opened the ^[r]rock and ^(BM)water flowed out;
^[s]It ran in the dry places like a river.
⁴²For He ^(BN)remembered His holy word
With His servant Abraham;
⁴³And He led out His people with joy,
His chosen ones with a joyful ^(BO)shout.
⁴⁴He also ^(BP)gave them the lands of the ^[t]nations,
So that they ^(BQ)might take possession of the fruit of the peoples’ labor,
⁴⁵And that they might ^(BR)keep His statutes
And comply with His laws;
^[u]Praise ^[v]the Lord!

Footnotes

Psalm 105:2 Or Meditate on
Psalm 105:2 I.e., wonderful acts
Psalm 105:5 I.e., wonderful acts
Psalm 105:5 Lit of His mouth
Psalm 105:6 Lit seed
Psalm 105:11 Lit measuring line
Psalm 105:14 Or punished
Psalm 105:18 Lit His soul came into
Psalm 105:22 Lit bind
Psalm 105:22 Lit at his
Psalm 105:27 Lit set the words of His signs
Psalm 105:32 Or made their rain hail
Psalm 105:37 Lit them
Psalm 105:38 Lit them
Psalm 105:39 Or curtain
Psalm 105:40 Or One
Psalm 105:40 Or food
Psalm 105:41 Or boulder
Psalm 105:41 Lit They went
Psalm 105:44 Or Gentiles
Psalm 105:45 Or Hallelujah!
Psalm 105:45 Heb Yah

Ephesians 1

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The Blessings of Redemption

1 Paul, ^(A)an apostle of ^(B)Christ Jesus ^[a]^(C)by the will of God,

To the ^[b]^(D)saints who are ^[c]at ^(E)Ephesus and ^(F)are faithful in ^(G)Christ Jesus: ²^(H)Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³^(I)Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in ^(J)the heavenly places in Christ, ⁴just as ^(K)He chose us in Him before ^(L)the foundation of the world, that we would be ^(M)holy and blameless before ^[d]Him. ^(N)In love ⁵^[e]He ^(O)predestined us to ^(P)adoption as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ to Himself, ^(Q)according to the good pleasure of His will, ⁶^(R)to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He favored us in ^(S)the Beloved. ⁷^(T)In ^[f]Him we have ^(U)redemption ^(V)through His blood, the ^(W)forgiveness of our wrongdoings, according to ^(X)the riches of His grace ⁸which He ^[g]lavished on ^[h]us. In all wisdom and insight ⁹He ^[i]^(Y)made known to us the mystery of His will, ^(Z)according to His good pleasure which He ^(AA)set forth in Him, ¹⁰regarding His plan of ^(AB)the fullness of the times, ^(AC)to bring all things together in Christ, things ^[j]in the heavens and things on the earth. ¹¹^[k]In Him we also ^(AD)have obtained an inheritance, having been ^(AE)predestined ^(AF)according to the purpose of Him who works all things ^(AG)in accordance with the plan of His will, ¹²to the end that ^[l]we who were the first to hope in the ^[m]Christ would be ^(AH)to the praise of His glory. ¹³In ^[n]Him, ^[o]you also, after listening to ^(AI)the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also ^[p]believed, you were ^(AJ)sealed in ^[q]Him with ^(AK)the Holy Spirit of the promise, ¹⁴who is a ^(AL)first installment of ^(AM)our inheritance, in regard to the ^(AN)redemption of ^(AO)God’s own possession, ^(AP)to the praise of His glory.

¹⁵For this reason I too, ^(AQ)having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and ^[r]your love for ^(AR)all the ^[s]saints, ¹⁶^(AS)do not cease giving thanks for you, ^(AT)while making mention of you in my prayers; ¹⁷that the ^(AU)God of our Lord Jesus Christ, ^(AV)the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of ^(AW)wisdom and of ^(AX)revelation in the ^[t]knowledge of Him. ¹⁸I pray that ^(AY)the eyes of your heart ^[u]may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the ^(AZ)hope of His ^(BA)calling, what are ^(BB)the riches of the glory of ^(BC)His inheritance in ^(BD)the ^[v]saints, ¹⁹and what is the ^[w]boundless greatness of His power toward us who believe. ^(BE)These are in accordance with the working of the ^(BF)strength of His might ²⁰which He brought about in Christ, when He ^(BG)raised Him from the dead and ^(BH)seated Him at His right hand in ^(BI)the heavenly places, ²¹far above ^(BJ)all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every ^(BK)name that is named, not only in ^(BL)this age but also in the one to come. ²²And He ^(BM)put all things in subjection under His feet, and made Him ^(BN)head over all things to the church, ²³which is His ^(BO)body, the ^(BP)fullness of Him who ^(BQ)fills ^(BR)all in all.