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Text size: A− Reset A+ Previous · Home · Next Household 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: 3 “that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.” 4 And fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. 5 Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ, 6 not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord and not to men, 8 knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive from the Lord, whether slave or free. 9 And masters, do the same things toward them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him. The whole armor o...

Text size: A− Reset A+ Previous · Home · Next Walk in love, as children of light 1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children, 2 and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. 3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints, 4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not proper, but rather thanksgiving. 5 For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not be partakers with them. 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 —for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodnes...

Text size: A− Reset A+ Previous · Home · Next Walk worthy of the calling 1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, 2 with all humility and meekness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, 3 being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8 Therefore he says: “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.” 9 Now this, “he ascended”—what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He who descended is also the one who ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. 11...

Text size: A− Reset A+ Previous · Home · Next Dead, and made alive with Christ 1 And you, being dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the jurisdiction of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom we all also once lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest— 4 but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you are saved— 6 and raised us up together and seated us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is ...

Home Reading Key — Paul’s Legal Frame, and Hebrews   Paul’s letters and Hebrews share a courtroom and covenant architecture not used the same way elsewhere in the New Testament. Both build on federal headship : one representative’s act legally binds the class tied to him. That is how covenants already work in the Hebrew Scriptures. Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David function as covenant heads binding descendants not yet born. Deuteronomy 29:14–15 states it openly. Core moves shared across Paul and Hebrews Two representative heads, two classes. Romans 5:12–21 and 1 Corinthians 15:22, 45 set Adam and Christ as the two heads humanity is divided under — condemnation through one, justification through the other. Hebrews 7:9–10 uses the same representative logic (Levi “in the loins” of Abraham) for a different question — priestly rank, not condemnation and justification — but the mechanism is the same: one man’s act counting legally for his line. “In Christ” as class-m...

Text size: A− Reset A+ The Lord's Prayer Matthew 6:9–13 9 Pray, then, in this way: Our Father who is in heaven, let your name be hallowed. 10 Let your kingdom come. Let your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us today our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. 13 And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Lord, Teach Us to Pray Luke 11:2–8 2 And he said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father who is in heaven, let your name be hallowed. Let your kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. 3 Give us day by day our daily bread. 4 And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” 5 And he said to them, “Which of you will have a friend, and will go to him at midnight and say to ...