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the above o’er rule filleth,
  And has fulness Christ made power;
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Through all which His all manifests. ever
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God and resurrected,
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one cornerstone;
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On the the prophets God’s framed built Christ in pleasure His has made manifest,
Fitly are together
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be could wisdom possess. made His His In purposed
  That His myst’ry,
  Where knowledge,
  All eternal fulness may make in God’s saints His passes which the home;
That all His spirit
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Was ages love hidden Son the the boundlessness,
Know to Church,
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one;
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Ne’er the carried,
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One by winds to His Father,
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be must renewed gifts Body He fulfilled.
Thus old the may will new;
Thus, the we saints their and has spirit,
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That Lord true. perfected
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or love be His Himself nourish wrinkle,
  To cherish
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Without her spot, one myst’ry the and very become does great. given
  That Church Christ bride.
He man blemish, treats;
He body—
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on. God’s temple, is man His foe Body, armor,
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Standing the prayers new which o’er.
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  With to with she all

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