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• Ephesians 4Bible

  Ephesians 4 urges a life worthy of the Christian calling and the preservation of the church's unity, which the Holy Spirit has brought about. It teaches the purpose of the ministries given to the church and describes the practical conduct involved in putting off the old man and putting on the new man.

• Ephesians 3Bible

  Ephesians 3 is the chapter in which Paul explains "the mystery of Christ"—that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs—and describes his own ministry of proclaiming it. He then closes the first half of the letter with a prayer for the believers and a doxology.

• Ephesians 1Bible

  Ephesians 1 opens with Paul's greeting, praises God for the election, redemption, and sealing with the Holy Spirit that believers have received in Christ, and continues with a prayer that the readers may come to know God more deeply.

• Ephesians 5Bible

  Ephesians 5 exhorts believers to imitate God and to live in love and light, describes a life filled with the Spirit and marked by thanksgiving, and addresses the relationship between wives and husbands by analogy to the relationship between Christ and the church.

• Ephesians 2Bible

  Ephesians 2 teaches that those who were dead in trespasses and sins have been saved by grace through faith, and that through the cross of Christ, Jews and Gentiles have become one body and are being built together into a temple of God.

• Ephesians 6Bible

  Ephesians 6 is the final chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians. It gives exhortations to children and parents and to servants and masters, calls believers to put on the whole armor of God and to pray, and closes with news that Tychicus is being sent and with a benediction.

• Ephesians 6:4Bible Verses

  Ephesians 6:4 exhorts fathers not to provoke their children to wrath but to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. It is frequently cited in discussions of parental authority and responsibility and of approaches to discipline.

• Ephesians 2:1-3Bible Verses

  Ephesians 2:1-3 is a passage stating that people, before coming to faith, were "dead in trespasses and sins" and were "by nature the children of wrath." It is frequently cited in explanations of human sin and salvation and serves as a key text in discussions of original sin and free will.

• Ephesians 5:31–32Bible Verses

  A passage in which Paul quotes the "one flesh" saying of Genesis 2:24 and compares the union of husband and wife to the relationship between Christ and the church. It is often read at wedding services. Catholic and Protestant interpreters differ over whether the "mystery" should be understood as a sacrament.

• Ephesians 5:21-25Bible Verses

  Ephesians 5:21-25 is a passage in the Pauline epistles that exhorts wives to submit to their husbands and husbands to love their wives as Christ gave himself for the church. It is frequently read at wedding services. Interpreters differ over how to understand the marital relationship and the husband's "headship."

• Ephesians 1:3Bible Verses

  Ephesians 1:3 is a verse praising God for having blessed believers with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. It opens the first passage of praise in Ephesians and is frequently cited in discussions of what Scripture means by "blessing."

• Artemis of EphesusBible

  Artemis was a goddess worshiped in ancient Ephesus and identified with the Artemis of Greek mythology; the King James Version calls her Diana. In Acts 19, a riot breaks out in Ephesus when Paul's preaching of the gospel threatens the trade in silver models of her image.

• Prison EpistlesBible

  The Prison Epistles is the collective name for Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon, the four letters in which the apostle Paul indicates that he is writing while in confinement.

• Middle Wall of PartitionBible

  The "middle wall of partition" is an expression from Ephesians 2:14 for the barrier between Jews and Gentiles that Christ broke down through the cross. In Korean churches the phrase is frequently cited in connection with reconciliation and unity.

• Fivefold MinistryDoctrine & Theology

  The fivefold ministry is a collective term for the five offices named in Ephesians 4:11: apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. Denominations and theological traditions differ on whether these offices continue today.

• EphesusBible

  Ephesus was a Roman-era port city on the western coast of Asia Minor. Paul stayed there for about three years preaching the gospel, and the city was the destination of the Epistle to the Ephesians and the home of the first of the seven churches of Revelation.

• Gifts of the Holy SpiritBible

  The gifts of the Holy Spirit are the various abilities and ministries that the Holy Spirit distributes to believers for building up the church. Lists of them appear in 1 Corinthians 12, Romans 12, Ephesians 4, and elsewhere.

• BreastplateBible

  A breastplate is a piece of armor that protects the chest in battle. In the New Testament, the term renders the Greek *thōrax*; representative uses include "the breastplate of righteousness" in Ephesians and "the breastplate of faith and love" in 1 Thessalonians.

• Predestination and Free WillControversies

  Predestination and free will is a debate over whether salvation depends on God's election or on the human response. Calvinism, followed by Presbyterians, and the Arminian-Wesleyan tradition, followed by Methodists, Holiness churches, and Full Gospel churches, explain the question differently.

• Colossians 3:21Bible Verses

  Colossians 3:21 is a verse in the household code of Colossians that exhorts fathers not to provoke their children to anger. Paired with 3:20, which speaks of children's obedience, it sets limits on parental authority. It is frequently cited alongside Ephesians 6:4 in sermons on the family and in discussions of child discipline.