Study Desk

This is according to his eternal purpose accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I pray that he may grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power in your inner being through his Spirit,

Therefore, putting away lying, speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

Let the thief no longer steal. Instead, he is to do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.

In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

since we are members of his body.

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

To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.

Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and by his vast strength.

Everyone should look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work according to his good purpose.

But you know his proven character, because he has served with me in the gospel ministry like a son with a father.

because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up what was lacking in your ministry to me.

My goal is to know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of his glorious body, by the power that enables him to subject everything to himself.

And my God will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, so that you may have great endurance and patience, joyfully

For God was pleased to haveall his fullness dwell in him,