God chose us to be in a relationship with Him even before He laid out plans for this world; He wanted us to live holy lives characterized by love, free from sin, and blameless before Him.

This is why, when I heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus that is present in your community and of your great love for all God’s people,

But God, with the unfathomable richness of His love and mercy focused on us,

The Great Preacher of peace and love came for you, and His voice found those of you who were near and those who were far away.

so that through faith the Anointed One will reside in their hearts. May love be the rich soil where their lives take root. May it be the bedrock where their lives are founded so that together

with all of Your people they will have the power to understand that the love of the Anointed is infinitely long, wide, high, and deep, surpassing everything anyone previously experienced. God, may Your fullness flood through their entire beings.

Be humble. Be gentle. Be patient. Tolerate one another in an atmosphere thick with love.

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were all called to pursue one hope.

Instead, by truth spoken in love, we are to grow in every way into Him—the Anointed One, the head.

He joins and holds together the whole body with its ligaments providing the support needed so each part works to its proper design to form a healthy, growing, and mature body that builds itself up in love.

So imitate God. Follow Him like adored children,

and live in love as the Anointed One loved you—so much that He gave Himself as a fragrant sacrifice, pleasing God.

Husbands, you must love your wives so deeply, purely, and sacrificially that we can understand it only when we compare it to the love the Anointed One has for His bride, the church. We know He gave Himself up completely to make her His own, washing her clean of all her impurity with water and the powerful presence of His word.

So husbands should care for their wives as if their lives depended on it, the same way they care for their own bodies. As you love her, you ultimately are loving part of yourself (remember, you are one flesh).

No one really hates his own body; he takes care to feed and love it, just as the Anointed takes care of His church,

Nevertheless, each husband is to love and protect his own wife as if she were his very heart, and each wife is to respect her own husband.

Brothers and sisters, let me leave you with a blessing: May peace and love with faith be yours from God the Father and the Lord Jesus the Anointed.

May His grace surround all who love our Lord Jesus the Anointed with a never-ending love.