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Prayer for Strengthened Love

14 For this reason[a] I kneel[b] before the Father,[c] 15 from[d] whom every family[e] in heaven and on earth is named.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 3:14 sn For this reason resumes the point begun in v. 1, after a long parenthesis.
  2. Ephesians 3:14 tn Grk “I bend my knees.”
  3. Ephesians 3:14 tc Most Western and Byzantine witnesses, along with a few others (א2 D F G Ψ 0278 1505 1881 2464 M lat sy), have “of our Lord Jesus Christ” after “Father,” but such an edifying phrase cannot explain the rise of the reading that lacks it, especially when the shorter reading is attested by early and significant witnesses such as P46 א* A B C P 6 33 81 365 1175 1739 co Or Hier.
  4. Ephesians 3:15 tn Or “by.”
  5. Ephesians 3:15 tn Or “the whole family.”