I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us,

Triumph in Christ

When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord,

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.

Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.

And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.

Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery—

yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!

so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

Greeting

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:

Spiritual Blessings in Christ

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ

so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.

that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,

and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.