Study Desk

and that which was a trial to you in my bodily condition you did not despise or loathe, but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself.

envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.

And those who will walk in step with this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are at Ephesus and who are faithful in Christ Jesus:

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the full knowledge of Him,

But God, being rich in mercy because of His great love with which He loved us,

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

remember that you were at that time without Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having in Himself put to death the enmity.

in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.

and to bring to light for all what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things;

so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.

and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ,

being darkened in their mind, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart.