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Ephesians · read by Bob Hoekstra
61 verses, in order. Only the verses Bob read aloud are shown.
Ephesians 1
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Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Read from ESV · Jesus Christ Our Lord
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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.Read from NASB1995 · Grace for Knowing God
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For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In loveRead from NKJV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 1
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He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,Read from NKJV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 1
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to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.Read from NKJV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 1
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In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His graceRead from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #11 - a Covenant of Relationship Part 1
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In Him we were also chosen as God's own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,Read from NKJV · The Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man - Part 2
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that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.Read from NKJV · The Highest Priority
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I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #10 - the Resurrection Covenant Part 2
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and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #10 - the Resurrection Covenant Part 2
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which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #10 - the Resurrection Covenant Part 2
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And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #2 - the Head and the Body
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which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.Read from ESV · The Lord as Home Builder
Ephesians 2
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But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #02 - the New Covenant Part 2
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made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #02 - the New Covenant Part 2
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And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #02 - the New Covenant Part 2
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in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.Read from NKJV · Growing in Grace #6 - the 'Much More' Grace of God
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For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,Read from NASB1995 · Growing in the Grace of God #02 - the New Covenant Part 2
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not by works, so that no one can boast.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #02 - the New Covenant Part 2
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For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.Read from ESV · Living Daily by Grace
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remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.Read from NKJV · Lives Filled With Hope
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But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.Read from ESV · Growing in the Grace of God #11 - a Covenant of Relationship Part 1
Ephesians 3
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This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.Read from NKJV · Promise Believers #5 - Children of Promise
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Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,Read from NKJV · The Fullness of the Blessing of the Gospel of Christ
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I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,Read from NKJV · The Holy Spirit and Grace
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so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,Read from NKJV · Growing in Grace #4 - the Holy Spirit and the Grace of God
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will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depthRead from NKJV · Growing in Grace #4 - the Holy Spirit and the Grace of God
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of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #08 - the Holy Spirit Covenant Part 2
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Now to Him who is able to do so much more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #14 - Characters of New Covenant Life & Service Part 2
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to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #14 - Characters of New Covenant Life & Service Part 2
Ephesians 4
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and with diligence to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.Read from NKJV · Strategic Leadership Issues
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And it was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,Read from NKJV · Strategic Leadership Issues
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to equip the saints for works of ministry and to build up the body of Christ,Read from NKJV · The Church How Jesus Builds It
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until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as we mature to the full measure of the stature of Christ.Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #6 - Being Equipped for Ministry
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Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #6 - Being Equipped for Ministry
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Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #6 - Being Equipped for Ministry
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From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.Read from NKJV · Singles Serving the Lord Without Distraction - Part 2
Ephesians 5
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Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #13 - Characters of New Covenant Life & Service Part 1
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and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #13 - Characters of New Covenant Life & Service Part 1
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Test and prove what pleases the Lord.Read from NASB1995 · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #1 - Nature, Purpose and Function
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Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.Read from NKJV · Growing in Grace #4 - the Holy Spirit and the Grace of God
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Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,Read from NKJV · The Holy Spirit and Grace
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always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.Read from NKJV · The Holy Spirit and Grace
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Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.Read from ESV · Family God's Way #4 - Husbands and Wives
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For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.Read from NKJV · Husbands and Wives
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Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.Read from NKJV · Husbands and Wives
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for herRead from NKJV · Family God's Way #4 - Husbands and Wives
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to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,Read from NKJV · Family God's Way #4 - Husbands and Wives
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and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.Read from NKJV · Family God's Way #4 - Husbands and Wives
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In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.Read from NKJV · Husbands and Wives
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Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.Read from NKJV · Husbands and Wives
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"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."Read from NKJV · Husbands and Wives
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This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.Read from NKJV · Family God's Way #4 - Husbands and Wives
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Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.Read from NKJV · Husbands and Wives
Ephesians 6
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"Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise),Read from NKJV · Family God's Way #5 - Parents and Children
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"that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth."Read from NKJV · Family God's Way #5 - Parents and Children
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Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.Read from NKJV · Family God's Way #5 - Parents and Children
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Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.Read from NKJV · Counseling God's Way Leadership Seminar - Part 3