Starting over
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has …
Do not cease to give thanks
Ephesians 1:15-16 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, …
This is war
Ephesians 6:10-11 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that …
Serve everyone
Ephesians 6:9 Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is …
Slave or free, obey
Ephesians 6:5-8 Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of …
A father’s instruction
Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. What …
Honor your father and mother
Ephesians 6:1-3 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment …
Love and respect
Ephesians 5:33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. …
The two shall become one
Ephesians 5:31-32 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one …
He who loves his wife loves himself
Ephesians 5:28-30 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For …
Love like a man
Ephesians 5:25-27 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having …
Wives and husbands, Christ and the Church
Ephesians 5:22-24 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as …
Use your time wisely
Ephesians 5:15-16 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days …
How to be a light
Ephesians 5:8-10 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the …
Don’t believe everything you hear
Ephesians 5:6-7 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons …
Don’t make an idol of sex
Ephesians 5:5 For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, …
Joking aside, let’s give thanks
Ephesians 5:4 Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there …
Leave behind sexual immorality
Ephesians 5:3 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Sex …
Love like God loves
Ephesians 5:1-2 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, …
We owe it to each other to forgive
Ephesians 4:32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. If I asked you why Jesus …
Forget about it
Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Revenge …
This is practice for the future
Ephesians 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Have you …
God’s people watch their mouths
Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the …
A life lived for God is an honest life
Ephesians 4:28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he …
Forgiveness takes away the enemy’s weapon
Ephesians 4:26-27 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the …
Family speaks the truth
Ephesians 4:25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one …
A new heart means a new mind
Ephesians 4:23-24 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of …
Have you learned about the real Jesus?
Ephesians 4:20-22 But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as …
Trade in your heart for a new one
Ephesians 4:17-19 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the …
The body grows in love
Ephesians 4:15-16 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into …
May we grow to maturity
Ephesians 4:13-14 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature …
How low are you willing to go?
Ephesians 4:9-10 (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? …
Grace is a great gift
Ephesians 4:7-8 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it says, “When …
One hope
Ephesians 4:4-6 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— …
In the bond of peace
Ephesians 4:3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. A reading of the New Testament will …
Walk worthy of your calling
Ephesians 4:1-2 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which …
He can do more than you can ask for
Ephesians 3:20-21 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to …
With all the fullness of God
Ephesians 3:19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of …
Can you even comprehend?
Ephesians 3:17-18 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to …
His gifts are given according to His riches
Ephesians 3:16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit …
Learn to pray as part of a family
Ephesians 3:14-15 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is …
Grace to the least of all the saints
Ephesians 3:7-13 Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by …
The mystery of the gospel revealed
Ephesians 3:1-6 For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles— assuming that you have heard of …
Member’s of God’s household
Ephesians 2:17-22 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through …
One new Man
Ephesians 2:15-16 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of …
He is our peace
Ephesians 2:14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing …
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. Christian, …
Once separated
Ephesians 2:11-12 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, …
We are His workmanship
Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in …
By grace you have been saved through faith
Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of …