Study Desk

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with spiritual blessings in heavenly places, in Christ:

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation, in the knowledge of him:

But God (who is rich in mercy) for his exceeding charity wherewith he loved us

For by grace you are saved through faith: and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God.

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

That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world.

And might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, killing the enmities in himself.

Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners: but you are fellow citizens with the saints and the domestics of God,

In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.

If yet you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me towards you:

Of which I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God, which is given to me according to the operation of his power.

And to enlighten all men, that they may see what is the dispensation of the mystery which hath been hidden from eternity in God who created all things:

That the manifold wisdom of God may be made known to the principalities and powers in heavenly places through the church,

To know also the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all knowledge: that you may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

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

Until we all meet into the unity of faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ:

Having their understanding darkened: being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

And put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth.

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God: whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption.