Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise), so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction…

Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.                                                                                                                    Ephesians 5:33  It is quite interesting that the Bible affirms what we already know about husbands and wives. Ask a man the…

“Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”                                                                                              Ephesians 5:14  Are you spiritually awake? Are you enjoying a vibrant, personal relationship with Jesus? Are you walking daily in the power of the Holy Spirit? In today’s passage, Paul quotes from Isaiah instructing us to…

But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints; and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.                                                                                                             Ephesians 5:3-4  In today’s passage, Paul instructs us to avoid sexual immortality and even…

Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear.                                                                                                            Ephesians 4:29 There is tremendous power in the words that we use. We can use our tongues…

Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity. He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will…

So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice…

And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to…

There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.                                                                                                             Ephesians 4:4-6  Today’s passage brings us a tremendous truth that…

Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.                                                                                                        Ephesians 3:20-21  Previously, we looked at…