Ephesians 3:17

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Ephesians 3:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.

16 I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,

17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,

18 will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth

19 of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

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