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I plead with you then, as a prisoner for the Lord, to live a life worthy of the calling you have received, with perfect humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another lovingly. Make every effort to preserve the unity which has the Spirit as its origin and peace as its blinding force. There is but one body and one Spirit, just as there is but one hope given all of you by your call…Be imitators of God as his dear children. Follow the way of love, even as Christ loved you. He gave himself for us as an offering to God, a gift of pleasing fragrance.
That is why I kneel before the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name; and I pray that he will bestow on gifts in keeping with the riches of his glory. May he strengthen you inwardly through the working of his Spirit. May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith, and may charity be the root and foundation of your life. Thus you will be able to grasp fully and with all the holy ones, the breadth and length and height and depth of Christ’s love, and experiences this love which surpasses all knowledge so that you may attain to the fullness of God himself.
