Ephesians 2:10

2:10 For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them. ¹ 

Ephesians 2:14

2:14 For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one ²  and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,

Ephesians 5:6

Live in the Light

5:6 Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience. ³ 

Ephesians 5:29

5:29 For no one has ever hated his own body ⁴  but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

[2:10]  ¹ tn Grk “so that we might walk in them” (or “by them”).

[2:14]  ² tn Grk “who made the both one.”

[5:6]  ³ sn The expression sons of disobedience is a Semitic idiom that means “people characterized by disobedience.” In this context it refers to “all those who are disobedient.” Cf. Eph 2:2-3.

[5:29]  ⁴ tn Grk “flesh.”