Study Desk

and to bring to light all, what is the fellowship of the mystery having been hidden from eternity in God, the One creating all things through Jesus Christ,

so that now to the rulers and to the authorities in the heavenlies might be made known through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God,

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

one God and Father of all, the One above all and through all and in you all.

until we all may come to the unity of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

having been darkened in the intellect, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them because of the hardness of their heart,

and to put on the new man, which according to God was created in righteousness and true holiness.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed to the day of redemption.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, having forgiven one another, even as also God forgave you in Christ.

Then become imitators of God, as beloved children,

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

For be knowing this, that every fornicator, or unclean one, or covetous one , who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for through these things the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.

giving thanks at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, even to God the Father,

having been subject to one another in the fear of God.

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the soul,

Put on all the armor of God, for you to be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil,

Because of this, take up all of the armor of God that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having worked out all things, to stand.

Also, take "the helmet of salvation," and the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God; Isa. 59:17 LXX-Isa. 11:4; MT-Isa. 49:2; LXX and MT-Hos. 6:5

Peace to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.