Study Desk

For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. It is His body (the church) that He saves.

Husbands, love your wives. You must love them as Christ loved the church. He gave His life for it.

So men should love their wives as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

No man hates himself. He takes care of his own body. That is the way Christ does. He cares for His body which is the church.

We are all a part of His body, the church.

For this reason, a man must leave his father and mother when he gets married and be joined to his wife. The two become one.

So every man must love his wife as he loves himself. Every wife must respect her husband.

Are you strong because you belong to Christ? Does His love comfort you? Do you have joy by being as one in sharing the Holy Spirit? Do you have loving-kindness and pity for each other?

Jesus has always been as God is. But He did not hold to His rights as God.

After He became a man, He gave up His important place and obeyed by dying on a cross.

You know how Timothy proved to be such a true friend to me when we preached the Good News. He was like a son helping his father.

The act of becoming a Jew has nothing to do with us becoming Christians. We worship God through His Spirit and are proud of Jesus Christ. We have no faith in what we ourselves can do.

I want to know Him. I want to have the same power in my life that raised Jesus from the dead. I want to understand and have a share in His sufferings and be like Christ in His death.

I do not say that I have received this or have already become perfect. But I keep going on to make that life my own as Christ Jesus made me His own.

He will change these bodies of ours of the earth and make them new. He will make them like His body of shining-greatness. He has the power to do this because He can make all things obey Him.

And my God will give you everything you need because of His great riches in Christ Jesus.

God took us out of a life of darkness. He has put us in the holy nation of His much-loved Son.

We have been bought by His blood and made free. Our sins are forgiven through Him.

Christ is the head of the church which is His body. He is the beginning of all things. He is the first to be raised from the dead. He is to have first place in everything.

God the Father was pleased to have everything made perfect by Christ, His Son.