Bible: Ephesians 1:15-22; 3:14-19

Prayer for Wisdom and Revelation

1:15 For this reason, 1  because I 2  have heard 3  of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love 4  for all the saints, 1:16 I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you 5  in my prayers. 1:17 I pray that 6  the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, 7  may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation 8  in your growing knowledge of him, 9  1:18 – since the eyes of your 10  heart have been enlightened 11  – so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, 12  what is the wealth of his glorious 13  inheritance in the saints, 1:19 and what is the incomparable 14  greatness of his power toward 15  us who believe, as displayed in 16  the exercise of his immense strength. 17  1:20 This power 18  he exercised 19  in Christ when he raised him 20  from the dead and seated him 21  at his right hand in the heavenly realms 22  1:21 far above every rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. 1:22 And God 23  put 24  all things under Christ’s 25  feet, 26  and he gave him to the church as head over all things. 27 

3:14 The Lord God said to the serpent, 1 

“Because you have done this,

cursed 2  are you above all the wild beasts

and all the living creatures of the field!

On your belly you will crawl 3 

and dust you will eat 4  all the days of your life.

3:15 And I will put hostility 5  between you and the woman

and between your offspring and her offspring; 6 

her offspring will attack 7  your head,

and 8  you 9  will attack her offspring’s heel.” 10 

3:16 To the woman he said,

I will greatly increase 11  your labor pains; 12 

with pain you will give birth to children.

You will want to control your husband, 13 

but he will dominate 14  you.”

3:17 But to Adam 15  he said,

Because you obeyed 16  your wife

and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,

‘You must not eat from it,’

cursed is the ground 17  thanks to you; 18 

in painful toil you will eat 19  of it all the days of your life.

3:18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

but you will eat the grain 20  of the field.

3:19 By the sweat of your brow 21  you will eat food

until you return to the ground, 22 

for out of it you were taken;

for you are dust, and to dust you will return.” 23 

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