Study Desk

Favour unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and Lord Jesus Christ.

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

That, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you a Spirit of wisdom and understanding in gaining a personal knowledge of him, -

But, God, being rich in mercy, by reason of the great love wherewith he loved us,

For, by his favour, have ye been saved, through means of faith, and this hath come to pass - not from you, of God, the free-gift!

His, in fact we are - his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus upon a footing of good works, which God prepared beforehand, that, therein, we might walk.

Hence, then - no longer, are ye strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and members of the household of God, -

In whom, ye also, are being builded together, into a habitation of God in Spirit.

If at least ye have heard of the administration of the favour of God which hath been given unto me for you,

Of which I was made a minister, according to the free-gift of the favour of God which was given unto me, according to the energy of his power:

And to bring to light - what is the administration of the sacred secret which had been hidden away from the ages in God, who did all things create:

In order that now, unto the principalities and the authorities in the heavenlies, might be made known, through means of the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God, -

To get to know, also, the knowledge-surpassing, love of the Christ, - in order that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God:

One God and Father of all - who is over all, and through all, and in all.

Until we all advance - into the oneness of the faith, and the personal knowledge of the Son of God, into a man of full-growth, into the measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;

Being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God - by reason of the ignorance that existeth within them, by reason of their hearts being turned into stone,

And were to put on the man of new mould, who, after God, hath been created in his truthful righteousness and loving kindness.

And be not grieving the Holy Spirit of God, wherewith ye have been sealed unto a day of redemption;

And be ye gracious one to another, tenderly affectionate, in favour forgiving one another - even as, God also, in Christ, hath in favour forgiven you;

Become ye, therefore, imitators of God, as children beloved,