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Ephesians 2 moves from death to life and from division to peace. Discover grace that saves, good works prepared by God, and the church built together as his dwelling.
Ephesians 1 blesses God for choosing, redeeming, and sealing a people in Christ and then prays for sight to grasp hope, inheritance, and power. Learn how Christ’s headship and the Spirit’s seal steady everyday discipleship.
Paul closes his letter by landing doctrine in daily life: unity healed, joy commanded, gentleness seen, prayer replacing worry, minds trained, and contentment learned. Gospel partnership becomes worship as God supplies every need in Christ.
Philippians 3 dismantles religious confidence and centers the heart on Christ alone. Paul counts every badge as loss to gain Christ, presses on with hope, and calls us to live as citizens awaiting the Savior.
Philippians 2 links the church’s unity to Christ’s descent and exaltation. We work out what God works in, refuse grumbling, and honor servants who seek Christ’s interests while we wait for the day of Christ.
Paul’s first chapter to Philippi pairs deep affection with firm purpose. The gospel advances through chains, love grows wise, and life and death both belong to Christ.
Colossians 4 ties Christ’s supremacy to ordinary life: fair leadership, devoted prayer, and gracious public witness. Paul’s team shows how grace travels and how chains cannot stop the word.
Colossians 3 shows resurrection life at work in desires, speech, worship, and home. Set your mind above, mortify sin, put on love, and do everything in Jesus’ name with gratitude.
Paul dismantles hollow captivities by centering us on Christ, in whom all God’s fullness dwells and in whom believers are brought to fullness. Union with Him cancels our debt, disarms powers, and frees us from rules that cannot change the heart.
Colossians 1 marries Paul’s prayer for a worthy walk with a soaring hymn to Christ’s supremacy. The cross makes peace, reconciliation births holiness, and hope anchors perseverance.
Paul ends with a call to ordered love: pray for the word to run, work with quiet diligence, correct with family warmth, and rest in the Lord of peace. Grace frames every duty and guards the church’s witness.
Paul counters panic with clear teaching about Christ’s coming, the rebellion, and the lawless one. He calls the church to stand firm, love the truth, and pray for strength until the Lord appears.
Paul praises a growing church under pressure and frames its trials inside Christ’s promised revelation. God will give relief to His people and repay evil, and He will be glorified in His saints.
Paul closes with wakeful hope and ordinary holiness. Children of the day encourage one another, honor leaders, test everything, and trust the God who sanctifies through and through.
Paul calls believers to please God more and more in holiness, love, and work, then lifts their eyes to the Lord’s return. Grief yields to hope as the dead in Christ rise and the living are gathered to meet him.
Ephesians 2 Chapter Study
Published by Brother Woody BrohmEphesians 2 moves from death to life and from division to peace. Discover grace that saves, good works prepared by God, and the church built together as his dwelling.