just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

Prayer for Spiritual Wisdom

Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,

but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—

from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

Walk in Love

Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.

And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.

Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Peace to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.