Study Desk

Brothers and sisters, if a person is discovered in some sin, you who are spiritual restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness. Pay close attention to yourselves, so that you are not tempted too.

So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.

So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the family of faith.

Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, would be to the praise of his glory.

—since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened—so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

it is not from works, so that no one can boast.

For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them.

Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh—who are called "uncircumcision" by the so-called "circumcision" that is performed on the body by human hands—

so that through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household,

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,

and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

The one who steals must steal no longer; rather he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need.

But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

so that he may present the church to himself as glorious—not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

Clothe yourselves with the full armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.