Study Desk

So that you no more are a slave, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

But then, indeed, not knowing God, you served as slaves to the ones by nature not being gods.

But now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and poor elements to which you desire again to slave anew?

and you did not despise my trial in my flesh nor disdained it , but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you beforehand, as I also said before, that the ones practicing such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. For whatever a man may sow, that he also will reap.

And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them and on the Israel of God.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints being 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 blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies with Christ,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and 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 are saved, through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God;

for we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God before prepared that we should walk in them.

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

and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, slaying the enmity in Himself.

So, then, you are no longer strangers and tenants, but you are fellow citizens of the saints and of the family of God,

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

if, indeed, you heard of the stewardship of the grace of God given to me for you,

of which I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me, according to the working of His power.