trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

For the things they do in secret are shameful even to mention.

And do not get drunk with wine, which is debauchery, but be filled by the Spirit,

Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.

Masters, treat your slaves the same way, giving up the use of threats, because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

For this reason I ask you not to lose heart because of what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.

Now what is the meaning of “he ascended,” except that he also descended to the lower regions, namely, the earth?

He, the very one who descended, is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.

But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.

But all things being exposed by the light are made evident.

because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body.

This mystery is great – but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

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

– since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened – so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

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.