Study Desk

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

He who steals must steal no longer, but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need.

So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

because we are members of His body.

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

Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the might of His strength.

For to you it has been granted for Christ's sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

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

But you know of his proven worth, that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father.

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

that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by His working through which He is able to even subject all things to Himself.

And my God will fulfill all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

For this reason also, since the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

being strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously

Who rescued us from the authority of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son of His love,

And through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross—through Him—whether things on earth or things in heaven.

but now He reconciled you in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach—