Ephesians 3:11

I Believe in God

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  “By sending his only Son and the Spirit of Love in the fullness of time, God has revealed his innermost secret:” — Catechism footnote: Cf. I Cor 2:7-16; Eph 3:9-12.

The Church in God's Plan

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  “Because she is united to Christ as to her bridegroom, she becomes a mystery in her turn.” — Catechism footnote: Eph 5:32; 3:9-11; 5:25-27.

Cyril of Jerusalem

• Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 1

  “God is lavish in beneficence, yet He waits for each man’s genuine will: therefore the Apostle added and said, to them that are called according to a purpose.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28. In S. Paul’s argument the “purpose” is God’s eternal purpose of salvation through Christ (Eph. i. 11; iii. 11): but Cyril applies it here to…

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Clement of Alexandria

• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.17Book I

  “All things, therefore, are dispensed from heaven for good, “that by the Church may be made known the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal foreknowledge, which He purposed in Christ.”” — editor's note: Eph. iii. 10, 11.

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• Ephesians 5:25

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• Ephesians 5:26

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• Ephesians 5:27

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• Ephesians 5:32

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• Colossians 1:27

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• 2 Timothy 3:2

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• Exodus 28:3

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• Proverbs 9:3

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• John 1:16

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• John 7:16

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• John 7:18

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• John 8:44

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• John 10:8

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• 1 Corinthians 2:13

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• Ephesians 1:10

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