Study Desk

"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."

Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power.

for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for those services that you could not give me.

More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,

Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.

He will transform the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself.

And my God will fully satisfy every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, while joyfully

He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.

he has now reconciled in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him—

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

the mystery that has been hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always wrestling in his prayers on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in everything that God wills.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath that is coming.

As you know, we dealt with each one of you like a father with his children,

urging and encouraging you and pleading that you lead a life worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.