Ephesians 1:16-19

J.B. Phillips New Testament

I thank God for you, and pray for you

^15-19Since, then, I heard of this faith of yours in the Lord Jesus and the practical way in which you are expressing it towards fellow-Christians, I thank God continually for you and I never give up praying for you; and this is my prayer. That God, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ and the all-glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and the insight to know more of him: that you may receive that inner illumination of the spirit which will make you realise how great is the hope to which he is calling you—the magnificence and splendour of the inheritance promised to Christians—and how tremendous is the power available to us who believe in God.

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Ephesians 1:16-18

New International Version

¹⁶I have not stopped giving thanks for you,^(A) remembering you in my prayers.^(B) ¹⁷I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father,^(C) may give you the Spirit^[a] of wisdom^(D) and revelation, so that you may know him better. ¹⁸I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened^(E) in order that you may know the hope to which he has called^(F) you, the riches^(G) of his glorious inheritance^(H) in his holy people,^(I)