Study Desk

Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor , for we are members of one another.

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.

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

For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

for we are members of his body.

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

Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

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

for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort—for the sake of his good pleasure—is God.

For there is no one here like him who will readily demonstrate his deep concern for you.

But you know his qualifications, that like a son working with his father, he served with me in advancing the gospel.

since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me.

My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death,

who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.

And my God will supply your every need according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully

For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son

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

but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him—