Study Desk

God put this power to work in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,

But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God—

For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.

remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it.

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God,

in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.

and to make everyone see what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things;

so that through the church the wisdom of God in its rich variety might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.

in whom we have access to God in boldness and confidence through faith in him.

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

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

until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.

and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption.

and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children,

and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.