Study Desk

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

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

and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby bringing the hostility to an end.

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

in whom you also are built into it for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

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

that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places.

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

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

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ;

they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart;

and put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

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

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

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

Be sure of this, that no fornicator or impure man, or one who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is because of these things that the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

always and for everything giving thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father.

not in the way of eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,