The one who steals must steal no longer; rather he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need.

in whom we have boldness and confident access to God because of Christ’s faithfulness.

so that through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.