Study Desk

Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

Giving praise at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;

For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place.

And take salvation for your head-dress and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

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

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

I give praise to my God at every memory of you,

For God is my witness, how my love goes out to you all in the loving mercies of Christ Jesus.

Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

And most of the brothers in the Lord, taking heart because of my chains, are all the stronger to give the word of God without fear.

Having no fear of those who are against you; which is a clear sign of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;

To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;

For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name;

And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

For in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him; and not only on him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief.

For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: