Study Desk

The purpose was that the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles by Christ Jesus, so that we could receive the promised Spirit through faith.

But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin’s power, so that the promise might be given on the basis of faith in Jesus Christ to those who believe.

The law, then, was our guardian until Christ, so that we could be justified by faith.

to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then God has made you an heir.

So then, have I become your enemy because I told you the truth?

They court you eagerly, but not for good. They want to exclude you from me, so that you would pursue them.

But just as then the child born as a result of the flesh persecuted the one born as a result of the Spirit, so also now.

For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.

Brothers and sisters, if someone is overtaken in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual, restore such a person with a gentle spirit, watching out for yourselves so that you also won’t be tempted.

so that we who had already put our hope in Christ might bring praise to his glory.

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

so that in the coming ages he might display the immeasurable riches of his grace through his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

not from works, so that no one can boast.

So then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh—called “the uncircumcised” by those called “the circumcised,” which is done in the flesh by human hands.

he made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that he might create in himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.

He did this so that he might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross by which he put the hostility to death.

So then you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household,

This is so that God’s multi-faceted wisdom may now be made known through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavens.

So then I ask you not to be discouraged over my afflictions on your behalf, for they are your glory.