which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,

When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ,

so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.

and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.