Ephesians 1:15-23 New International Version (NIV)

15. For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord

Jesus and your love for all God’s people,

16. I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my

prayers.

17. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious

Father, may give you the Spirit[a] of wisdom and revelation, so

that you may know him better.

18. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order

that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the

riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,

19. and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That

power is the same as the mighty strength

20. he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him

at his right hand in the heavenly realms,

21. far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every

name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the

one to come.

22. And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to

be head over everything for the church,

23. which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in

every way.