Study Desk

And that the two might come into agreement with God in one body through the cross, so putting an end to that division.

So then you are no longer as those who have no part or place in the kingdom of God, but you are numbered among the saints, and of the family of God,

In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;

In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.

If that ordering of the grace of God has come to your knowledge, which was given to me for you,

Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power.

And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;

So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,

By whom we come near to God without fear through faith in him.

And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete.

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been marked out by God in the one hope of his purpose for you;

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

Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ:

Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.

And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation.

And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;

And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

Being certain of this, that no man who gives way to the passions of the flesh, no unclean person, or one who has desire for the property of others, or who gives worship to images, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and God.