Study Desk

But what does the Scripture say? "DRIVE OUT THE SLAVE WOMAN AND HER SON, FOR THE SON OF THE SLAVE WOMAN SHALL NOT BE AN HEIR WITH THE SON OF THE FREE WOMAN."

Now those who belong to Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

The one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him.

See with what large letters I have written to you with my own hand!

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He favored us in the Beloved.

In Him we also have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things in accordance with the plan of His will,

In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

and what is the boundless greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

even when we were dead in our wrongdoings, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

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

This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord,

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner self,

may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,

Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called,

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

and they, having become callous, have given themselves up to indecent behavior for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.