Ephesians 5The Message Wake Up from Your Sleep 5 1-2 Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was ...
We can certainly quench the Holy Spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:19), and sin can hinder the filling of the Spirit, affecting our fruitfulness for God. We can also grieve the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30) when our actions and words displease God. The answer to this as believers in Christ is ...
True repentance is characterized by an understanding of the seriousness of sin (Ephesians 2:1-3), a deep desire to be forgiven (Hebrews 9:14) and a determined commitment to change behavior and thoughts in order to stop sinning (Matthew 3:8; Acts 26:19-20). Godly sorrow leads to repenta...
Ephesians 5:5-6. For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedi...
Ephesians 5:1-2 (NASB)“Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.”Jonas Bohlin April 21, 2021.Because I love you so much, I AM reminding...
"Paul warns us not to participate in the deeds of darkness but instead to expose them (Ephesians 5:11). Understand that you cannot singlehandedly change an entire system; you are not called to do so. Yet we are to speak truth about our systems." - Diane Langberg And when we've seen...
In Ephesians the instruction to husbands reads: “In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of ...
“And to one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness…”27(1) Romans 5:1,2 (2) Ephesians 1:4; 2 Timothy 1:9 (3) John 3:16 (4) Romans 5:8 (5) Ephesians 1:13 (6) Revelation 3:20; John 1:12,13 (7) Revelation ...
7.Romans 5:1– “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 8.Psalm 34:14– “Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.” 9.Ephesians 2:14– “For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and...
Where Does the Bible Talk about Original Sin? Scripture says that we are born sinners and that we are, by nature, sinners. Psalm 51:5 says that we all come into the world as sinners: “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.” Ephesians 2:2 decl...