Study Desk

and to know Christ’s love that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Let the thief no longer steal. Instead, he is to do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.

No foul language should come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.

So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.

so that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life in the land.

Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the schemes of the devil.

For this reason take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand.

Tychicus, our dearly loved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will tell you all the news about me so that you may be informed.

so that you may approve the things that are superior and may be pure and blameless in the day of Christ,

so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard, and to everyone else, that my imprisonment is because I am in Christ.

so that, because of my coming to you again, your boasting in Christ Jesus may abound.

so that at the name of Jesusevery knee will bow—in heaven and on earthand under the earth—

Therefore, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, so now, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world,

Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon so that I too may be encouraged by news about you.

Indeed, he was so sick that he nearly died. However, God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.

For this reason, I am very eager to send him so that you may rejoice again when you see him and I may be less anxious.

More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ

So then, my dearly loved and longed for brothers and sisters, my joy and crown, in this manner stand firm in the Lord, dear friends.