Be kind and helpful to one another, tender-hearted [compassionate, understanding], forgiving one another [readily and freely], just as God in Christ also forgave you.
THE NEW LIFE PUTTING ON THE “NEW MAN”
THE NEW LIFE PUTTING ON THE “NEW MAN”
People of the World where are you going? Turn back to God! Back to your faithful principles!
THE NEW LIFE PUTTING ON THE “NEW MAN”
Be kind and helpful to one another, tender-hearted [compassionate, understanding], forgiving one another [readily and freely], just as God in Christ also forgave you.
UNITY IN THE BODY OF CHRIST THE NEW LIFE
So that we are no longer children [spiritually immature], tossed back and forth [like ships on a stormy sea] and carried about by every wind of [shifting] doctrine, by the cunning and trickery of [unscrupulous] men, by the deceitful scheming of people ready to do anything [for personal profit].
UNITY IN THE BODY OF CHRIST
He who descended is the very same as He who also has ascended high above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.
PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL STRENGTH THE GREATEST OF ALL DESIRES
Now to Him who is able to do superabundantly more than all that we dare ask or think , according to His power that is at work within us,
to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen.
THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL REVEALED
I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles.
ONE IN CHRIST RECONCILED AND UNITED BY THE CROSS
In Him [and in fellowship with one another] you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH
And you [He made alive when you] were [spiritually] dead and separated from Him because of your transgressions and sins,
in which you once walked.
THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER FOR WHAT THE HEART MAY RECEIVE
And He put all things in subjection under Christ’s feet, and appointed Him as head over all things in the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills and completes all things in all
GREETING AND SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS IN CHRIST
Blessed and worthy of praise be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ,
just as He chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world
OUTLINE OF THE EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS
The foundation, course and destiny of the Church are the sublime subjects with which the Epistle deals, and the style is of a correspondingly elevated character.