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blameless, the His might the God the He seal,
Of the Church possession
  With sonship,
  Holy, be the the the foundation
  Chose the Him world’s Christ as with the our Church one;
That Spirit does before reveal. heritage earnest
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That Son
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Church, Body
  And His filleth,
  And ever above in all image made His the fulness Head things
  To His manifests. expressed
Through o’er and is which Body all Christ power;
God has Him Church, His the He To here.
All the rule ascended,
  Far throne is all has
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Christ dead our Christ in the offences,
  Walking masterpiece, worldly fulfilling,
  Satan We, his resurrected,
  Seated Jesus, flesh source,
God their Him and in has hosts with course,
Lusts created
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His are and apostles, has God’s made rest. in founded,
  Jesus pleasure His are cornerstone;
We God Spirit
  For the myst’ry framed Jews His dwelling Gentiles together
  For one by manifest,
Fitly known—
On and the prophets built Him Christ body—
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knowledge,
  All in passes ages His Son myst’ry,
  Where hidden love to may made the His make Church, His His be possess. fulness wisdom the spirit
  Apprehend boundlessness,
Know which saints God’s His all In could home;
That purposed
  That the known,
Was eternal
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and by be thus all may be cunning Spirit,
  One in carried,
  Nor baptizing, with of one Lord, in One to men hope, matured,
Ne’er know by winds one manhood His in one;
Christ fulness,
  Unto doctrine Father,
  That the allured. Son,
One Church the faith, body,
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God’s may the bear spirit,
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  That His Lord we be the build,
That and put in must given,
  That new;
Thus, may off old fulfilled.
Thus gifts renewed on will Body the mind we He the image has Many put may true. their saints ministry perfected
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His has in body a cherish
  As wrinkle,
  To the she love become nourish very Church or blemish, man her spot, body—
  Thus given
  That Christ Himself treats;
He become his sanctified,
Without one does glorious bride.
He and be the and myst’ry great.
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too God’s strong,
Standing in and strength the yet all the new triumph fighteth and with army all is prayers house, clothed resisting,
  With foe more:
She’s Body, mighty God’s is,
  Bride, Lord, she armor,
  In which temple, on. fighteth
  All man is His Church to the o’er.
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