Study Desk

that the God of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

For we are his workmanship, created in Messiah Yeshua for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

that you were at that time separate from Messiah, alienated from the commonwealth of Yisra'el, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.

So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones, and of the household of God,

in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you;

whereof I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Yeshua the Messiah;

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

and to know Messiah's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to all the fullness of God.

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

until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Messiah;

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

and put on the new man, that like God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Don't grieve the Ruach HaKodesh of God, in whom you were sealed to the day of redemption.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Messiah forgave you.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.