¹⁸ may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people,^(A) to grasp how wide and long and high and deep^(B) is the love of Christ, ¹⁹ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge^(C)—that you may be filled^(D) to the measure of all the fullness of God.^(E)

Doxology

⁸ Each of the four living creatures^(A) had six wings^(B) and was covered with eyes all around,^(C) even under its wings. Day and night^(D) they never stop saying:

To the Church in Philadelphia

⁷ “To the angel of the church in Philadelphia^(A) write:

¹⁷ Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood,^(A) but by my Father in heaven.^(B)

²⁷ “All things have been committed to me^(A) by my Father.^(B) No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.^(C)