Study Desk

Because, a husband, is the head of his wife, as, the Christ also, is the head of the assembly, he, being the saviour of the body, -

So, ought the husbands also to be loving their own wives, as their own bodies, - he that loveth his own wife, loveth himself,

No one, in fact, ever yet hated, his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, - even as, the Christ, the assembly,

Because, members, are we of his body; -

For this cause, will a man leave his father and his mother, and will cleave unto his wife, and, they two, shall become, one flesh.

Nevertheless, ye also, do ye, individually, each man be so loving, his own wife, as himself, and, the wife, see that she reverence her husband.

For the rest, be empowering yourselves in the Lord, and in the grasp of his might:

Because, unto you, hath it been given as a favour, in behalf of Christ, not only, on him, to believe, but also, in his behalf, to suffer: -

For it is, God, who energiseth within you, both the desiring and the energising, in behalf of his good pleasure.

Because, for the sake of the work of the Lord, unto death, he drew nigh, running hazard with his life, that he might fill up your lack of the public service, towards me.

To get to know him, and the power of his resurrection and fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death, -

Who will transfigure our humbled body, into conformity with his glorified body, according to the energy wherewith he is able even to subdue, unto himself, all things.

And, my God, will fill up your every need, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

For this cause, we also, from the day when we heard of you , cease not, in your behalf, praying and asking - that ye may be filled unto the personal knowledge of his will, in all spiritual wisdom and discernment,

With all power, being empowered, according to the grasp of his glory, unto all endurance and long-suffering with joy,

Who hath rescued us out of the authority of the darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

And, through him, fully to reconcile all things unto him, making peace through the blood of his cross, - through him- whether the things upon the earth or the things in the heavens;

In his body of flesh, through means of his death, to present you holy and blameless and unaccusable before him, -

Now, am I rejoicing in the sufferings on your behalf, and am filling up the things that lack of the tribulations of the Christ, in my flesh, in behalf of his body, which is the assembly,

The sacred secret which had been hidden away from the ages and from the generations, but, now, hath been made manifest unto his saints -