Study Desk

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

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on those who are disobedient.

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

not only while being watched, and in order to please them, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on that evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.

Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

Peace be to the whole community, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

I thank my God every time I remember you,

For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the compassion of Christ Jesus.

having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.

who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited,

Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,

and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world.

He was indeed so ill that he nearly died. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, so that I would not have one sorrow after another.

For it is we who are the circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh—

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith.