Ephesians 1:18

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),

But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.”

He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days.

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved.

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.