Study Desk

And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

For this you know, [fn] that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

submitting to one another in the fear of God. [fn]

not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

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

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

Peace to the brethren, 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 upon every remembrance of you,

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

being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

and not in any way terrified by your adversaries, which is to them a proof of perdition, but to you of salvation, [fn] and that from God.

who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,

Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name,

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

for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,