Ephesians 3:14-21 This is the reason that I bow my knees in prayer to the Father,

AUV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ This is the reason that I bow my knees [in prayer] to the Father, ¹⁵ from whom every family in heaven and on earth receives its name. [Note: Here Paul resumes the prayer he began in verse 1]. ¹⁶ [I pray] that, according to God’s glorious abundance, He would empower you to become [spiritually] strong through His Holy Spirit in your inner person, ¹⁷ so that Christ will live in your hearts through faith. [I pray] that you will be rooted and grounded in [your] love, ¹⁸ so that you, along with all the saints [i.e., God’s holy people], will be [spiritually] strong enough to grasp how wide and long and high and deep [Christ’s love is]; ¹⁹ and to know that His love for us surpasses [our] knowledge, so that you people will be completely filled with the fullness of God. ²⁰ May there be to God, who is able to do infinitely more [for us] than we could [even] ask or think, according to [His] power at work in us --- ²¹ [I say] may there be praise to God in the church and in [or, “for”] Christ Jesus throughout all generations of people for ages and ages. May it be so.

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ For this cause I bow my knees to the Father. ¹⁵ Every family in heaven and on earth obtains its name from him. ¹⁶ That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man. ¹⁷ May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith to the end that you will be rooted and grounded in love. ¹⁸ May you be able to comprehend with all the holy ones the breadth and length and height and depth. ¹⁹ And may you know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge. May you be filled with all the fullness of God. ²⁰ Now to him that is able to do far more abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us. ²¹ Glory be to him in the congregation and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.