Study Desk

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

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,

But God, being rich in mercy, because 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 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 killing the hostility.

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

In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things,

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

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

one God and Father of all, who is over 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 fullness 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 to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

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

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.