Study Desk

But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise me or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself.

and envy; drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.

Peace and mercy to all who walk by this rule, even to the Israel of God.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.

in order that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.

And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,

But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.

And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.

and to illuminate for everyone the stewardship of this mystery, which for ages past was hidden in God, who created all things.

His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,

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