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, …
The Church: a temple
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s …
Incorruptible love
Ephesians 6:23-24 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with …
Be encouraged
Ephesians 6:21-22 So that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister …
Pray for your pastor
Ephesians 6:19-20 and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of …
To persevere, pray
Ephesians 6:18 praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making …
You’re equipped with a sword
Ephesians 6:17 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God In spiritual warfare, …
Shield yourself with faith
Ephesians 6:16 In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil …
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 …
Light is a gift
Ephesians 5:13-14 But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, …
When evil is the norm
Ephesians 5:11-12 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Devotion: A new heart means a new mind
Sometimes God just sets things up for us. Over the past few weeks I’ve had multiple talks about how the truth of …
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 …
Devotion: Trade in your heart for a new one
Why do we so often act as though we’re still a hard-hearted nonbeliever? Why do we act as if our lives haven’t …
Devotion: The body grows in love
We can’t grow individually or corporately as a body without our Head, who is Jesus. We can’t expect to become mature if …
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 …
Devotion: May we all grow to maturity
I paused from my devotions on Ephesians during the Easter season, but I’m back at it with Ephesians 4 this week.
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 …
We’ve all got a mission
Ephesians 4:11-12 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work …
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 …