Study Desk

For we are of God's making, created in union with the Messiah Yeshua for a life of good actions already prepared by God for us to do.

at that time had no Messiah. You were estranged from the national life of Isra'el. You were foreigners to the covenants embodying God's promise. You were in this world without hope and without God.

and in order to reconcile to God both in a single body by being executed on a stake as a criminal and thus in himself killing that enmity.

Yes, in union with him, you yourselves are being built together into a spiritual dwelling-place for God!

I assume that you have heard of the work God in his grace has given me to do for your benefit,

that in union with the Messiah and through the Good News the Gentiles were to be joint heirs, a joint body and joint sharers with the Jews in what God has promised.

and of letting everyone see how this secret plan is going to work out. This plan, kept hidden for ages by God, the Creator of everything,

In union with him, through his faithfulness, we have boldness and confidence when we approach God.

yes, to know it, even though it is beyond all knowing, so that you will be filled with all the fullness of God.

and one God, the Father of all, who rules over all, works through all and is in all.

until we all arrive at the unity implied by trusting and knowing the Son of God, at full manhood, at the standard of maturity set by the Messiah's perfection.

Their intelligence has been shrouded in darkness, and they are estranged from the life of God, because of the ignorance in them, which in turn comes from resisting God's will.

Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted; and forgive each other, just as in the Messiah God has also forgiven you.

So imitate God, as his dear children;

and live a life of love, just as also the Messiah loved us, indeed, on our behalf gave himself up as an offering, as a slaughtered sacrifice to God with a pleasing fragrance.

For of this you can be sure: every sexually immoral, impure or greedy person — that is, every idol-worshipper — has no share in the Kingdom of the Messiah and of God.

always give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

in order to set it apart for God, making it clean through immersion in the mikveh, so to speak,

Don't obey just to win their favor, serving only when they are watching you; but serve as slaves of the Messiah, doing what God wants with all your heart.

Use all the armor and weaponry that God provides, so that you will be able to stand against the deceptive tactics of the Adversary.