Search results for: Ephesians 2:8-9
Ephesians 5:18 (NLT)
Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,
Ephesians 5:19 (NLT)
singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts.
Ephesians 5:20 (NLT)
And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 5:21 (NLT)
And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Ephesians 5:22 (NLT)
For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:23 (NLT)
For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church.
Ephesians 5:24 (NLT)
As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.
Ephesians 5:25 (NLT)
For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her
Ephesians 5:26 (NLT)
to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.
Ephesians 5:27 (NLT)
He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.
Ephesians 5:28 (NLT)
In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself.
Ephesians 5:29 (NLT)
No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church.
Ephesians 5:30 (NLT)
And we are members of his body.
Ephesians 5:31 (NLT)
As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.”
Ephesians 5:32 (NLT)
This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.
Ephesians 5:33 (NLT)
So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Ephesians 6:1 (NLT)
Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.
Ephesians 6:3 (NLT)
If you honor your father and mother, “things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth.”
Ephesians 6:4 (NLT)
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.
Ephesians 6:5 (NLT)
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ.
Ephesians 6:6 (NLT)
Try to please them all the time, not just when they are watching you. As slaves of Christ, do the will of God with all your heart.
Ephesians 6:7 (NLT)
Work with enthusiasm, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.
Ephesians 6:8 (NLT)
Remember that the Lord will reward each one of us for the good we do, whether we are slaves or free.
Ephesians 6:9 (NLT)
Masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Don’t threaten them; remember, you both have the same Master in heaven, and he has no favorites.
Ephesians 6:19 (NLT)
And pray for me, too. Ask God to give me the right words so I can boldly explain God’s mysterious plan that the Good News is for Jews and Gentiles alike.