¹¹In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will ¹²so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, would be to the praise of his glory. ¹³And when you heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation)—when you believed in Christ—you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit, ¹⁴who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory. ¹⁵For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, ¹⁶I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you in my prayers. ¹⁷I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him, ¹⁸—since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened—so that you can know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹and what is the incomparable greatness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of his immense strength. ²⁰This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms ²¹far 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. ²²And God put all things under Christ’s feet, and gave him to the church as head over all things.