Study Desk

Always we give thanks to God, the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, and always we pray for you,

Which has been preached to you, just as it has been preached throughout the world; growing and bringing forth fruits, as it does also in you, since the day you heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth;

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you might be filled with the knowledge of the will of God in all wisdom and in all spiritual understanding;

That you might live a righteous life, please God with all good works, and bring forth good fruits, and grow in the knowledge of God;

So that you may joyfully give thanks to God the Father, who has enlightened us and made us worthy partakers of the inheritance of the saints;

He is the image of the invisible God, and the first-born of every creature:

For it pleased God to complete all things in him;

For which I became a minister, according to the dispensation of God which has been given to me for you, fully to preach the word of God everywhere;

To whom God wanted to make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ among you, the hope of our glory;

That their hearts may be comforted, and that they may be brought near by love to all the riches of the full assurance of understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, the Father, and of Christ,

And you were buried with him in baptism, and by him you were raised with him, for you believed in the power of God who raised him from the dead.

That very person does not uphold the Head by which the whole body is constructed and stands with the joints and members; and grows through the discipline of God.

And it appears there is some word of wisdom in these things when presented by the humble person in fear of God; provided they disregard the things of the flesh, not those things which are honourable but only those things which satisfy the pleasure of the flesh.

IF you then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God.

For you are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

And it is because of these things that the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Therefore as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on mercy, kindness, gentleness, humbleness of mind, meekness, patience;

And let his word dwell in you abundantly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God.

And whatever you do in word or deed, do it in the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, giving thanks through him to God the Father.

And pray for us also, that God may open unto us a door for preaching, to speak the mystery of Christ for whose sake I am a prisoner: