Study Desk

And as many as walk according to this rule, peace [be] on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

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

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

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, for his great love with which he loved us,

For by grace are ye saved, through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:

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

That at that time ye 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 both to God in one body by the cross, having by it slain the enmity:

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

In whom ye also are built together, for a habitation of God through the Spirit.

If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me on your account.

Of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effectual working of his power.

And to make all [men] see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

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

And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye 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 all.

Till we all come in 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 the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: