Ephesians 1:23

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

It will happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who will father children among you. Then they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel. They shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

But now they are many members, but one body.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him,

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.

No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it.

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.