Study Desk

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of 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 Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

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

and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.

Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you,

of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.

and to make all see what is the fellowship [fn] of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; [fn]

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

to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; 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 you [fn] all.

till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;

and that you put on the new man which was created according to 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.

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

Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.