Study Desk

But at that time when you did not know God, you were enslaved to the things which by nature are not gods.

But now, because you have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental spirits? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

And you did not despise or disdain what was a trial for you in my flesh, but you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus.

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, things which I am telling you in advance, just as I said before, that the ones who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked, for whatever a person sows, this he will also reap,

And all those who follow this rule, peace and mercy be on them and on the Israel of God.

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

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

Blessed is 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 glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

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

For we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we may walk in them.

that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope, and without God in the world.

and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, killing the enmity in himself.

Consequently, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens of the saints and members of the household of God,

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

and to enlighten everyone as to what is the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages by God, who created all things,

in order that the many-sided wisdom of God might be made known now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places through the church,

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