Here is Today's Message
Ephesians 4:1-10 GNT
The Unity of the Body
Ephesians 4:1-10 I urge you, then--I who am a prisoner because I serve the Lord; live a life that measures up to the standard God set when he called you.
Be always humble, gentle, and patient. Show your love by being tolerant with one another.
Do your best to preserve the unity which the Spirit gives by means of the peace that binds you together.
There is one body and one Spirit, just as there is one hope to which God has called you.
There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
there is one God and Father of all people, who is Lord of all, works through all, and is in all.
Each one of us has received a special gift in proportion to what Christ has given.
As the scripture says, "When he went up to the very heights, he took many captives with him; he gave gifts to people."
Now what does "he went up" mean? It means that first he came down to the lowest depths of the earth.
So the one who came down is the same one who went up, above and beyond the heavens, to fill the whole universe with his presence.
1 Thessalonians 2:9-16 Surely you remember, our friends, how we worked and toiled! We worked day and night so that we would not be any trouble to you as we preached to you the Good News from God.
You are our witnesses, and so is God, that our conduct toward you who believe was pure, right, and without fault.
You know that we treated each one of you just as parents treat their own children.
We encouraged you, we comforted you, and we kept urging you to live the kind of life that pleases God, who calls you to share in his own Kingdom and glory.
And there is another reason why we always give thanks to God. When we brought you Gods message, you heard it and accepted it, not as a message from human beings but as God's message, which indeed it is. For God is at work in you who believe.
Our friends. the same things happened to you that happened to the churches of God in Judah, to the people there who belong to Christ Jesus. You suffered the same persecutions from your own people that they suffered from the Jews,
who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us. How displeasing they are to God! How hostile they are to everyone!
They even tried to stop us from preaching to the Gentiles the message that would bring them salvation. In this way they have brought to completion all the sins they have always committed. And now God's anger has at last come down on them!
Romans 12:4-8 We have many parts in one body, and all these parts have different functions.
In the same way, though we are many, we are one body in union with Christ, and we are all joined to each other as different parts of one body.
So we are to use our different gifts in accordance with the grace that God has given us. If our gift is to speak God's message, we should do it according to the faith that we have;
if it is to serve, we should serve; if it is to teach, we should teach;
if it is to encourage others, we should do so. Whoever shares with others should do it generously; whoever has authority should work hard; whoever shows kindness to others should do it cheerfully.
1 Corinthians 10:17 Because there is one loaf of bread, all of us, though many, are one body, for we share the same loaf.
Ephesians 4:1-10 GNT
The Unity of the Body
Ephesians 4:1-10 I urge you, then--I who am a prisoner because I serve the Lord; live a life that measures up to the standard God set when he called you.
Be always humble, gentle, and patient. Show your love by being tolerant with one another.
Do your best to preserve the unity which the Spirit gives by means of the peace that binds you together.
There is one body and one Spirit, just as there is one hope to which God has called you.
There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
there is one God and Father of all people, who is Lord of all, works through all, and is in all.
Each one of us has received a special gift in proportion to what Christ has given.
As the scripture says, "When he went up to the very heights, he took many captives with him; he gave gifts to people."
Now what does "he went up" mean? It means that first he came down to the lowest depths of the earth.
So the one who came down is the same one who went up, above and beyond the heavens, to fill the whole universe with his presence.
1 Thessalonians 2:9-16 Surely you remember, our friends, how we worked and toiled! We worked day and night so that we would not be any trouble to you as we preached to you the Good News from God.
You are our witnesses, and so is God, that our conduct toward you who believe was pure, right, and without fault.
You know that we treated each one of you just as parents treat their own children.
We encouraged you, we comforted you, and we kept urging you to live the kind of life that pleases God, who calls you to share in his own Kingdom and glory.
And there is another reason why we always give thanks to God. When we brought you Gods message, you heard it and accepted it, not as a message from human beings but as God's message, which indeed it is. For God is at work in you who believe.
Our friends. the same things happened to you that happened to the churches of God in Judah, to the people there who belong to Christ Jesus. You suffered the same persecutions from your own people that they suffered from the Jews,
who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us. How displeasing they are to God! How hostile they are to everyone!
They even tried to stop us from preaching to the Gentiles the message that would bring them salvation. In this way they have brought to completion all the sins they have always committed. And now God's anger has at last come down on them!
Romans 12:4-8 We have many parts in one body, and all these parts have different functions.
In the same way, though we are many, we are one body in union with Christ, and we are all joined to each other as different parts of one body.
So we are to use our different gifts in accordance with the grace that God has given us. If our gift is to speak God's message, we should do it according to the faith that we have;
if it is to serve, we should serve; if it is to teach, we should teach;
if it is to encourage others, we should do so. Whoever shares with others should do it generously; whoever has authority should work hard; whoever shows kindness to others should do it cheerfully.
1 Corinthians 10:17 Because there is one loaf of bread, all of us, though many, are one body, for we share the same loaf.
Here is Today's Message
Ephesians 4:1-10 GNT
The Unity of the Body
Ephesians 4:1-10 I urge you, then--I who am a prisoner because I serve the Lord; live a life that measures up to the standard God set when he called you.
Be always humble, gentle, and patient. Show your love by being tolerant with one another.
Do your best to preserve the unity which the Spirit gives by means of the peace that binds you together.
There is one body and one Spirit, just as there is one hope to which God has called you.
There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
there is one God and Father of all people, who is Lord of all, works through all, and is in all.
Each one of us has received a special gift in proportion to what Christ has given.
As the scripture says, "When he went up to the very heights, he took many captives with him; he gave gifts to people."
Now what does "he went up" mean? It means that first he came down to the lowest depths of the earth.
So the one who came down is the same one who went up, above and beyond the heavens, to fill the whole universe with his presence.
1 Thessalonians 2:9-16 Surely you remember, our friends, how we worked and toiled! We worked day and night so that we would not be any trouble to you as we preached to you the Good News from God.
You are our witnesses, and so is God, that our conduct toward you who believe was pure, right, and without fault.
You know that we treated each one of you just as parents treat their own children.
We encouraged you, we comforted you, and we kept urging you to live the kind of life that pleases God, who calls you to share in his own Kingdom and glory.
And there is another reason why we always give thanks to God. When we brought you Gods message, you heard it and accepted it, not as a message from human beings but as God's message, which indeed it is. For God is at work in you who believe.
Our friends. the same things happened to you that happened to the churches of God in Judah, to the people there who belong to Christ Jesus. You suffered the same persecutions from your own people that they suffered from the Jews,
who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us. How displeasing they are to God! How hostile they are to everyone!
They even tried to stop us from preaching to the Gentiles the message that would bring them salvation. In this way they have brought to completion all the sins they have always committed. And now God's anger has at last come down on them!
Romans 12:4-8 We have many parts in one body, and all these parts have different functions.
In the same way, though we are many, we are one body in union with Christ, and we are all joined to each other as different parts of one body.
So we are to use our different gifts in accordance with the grace that God has given us. If our gift is to speak God's message, we should do it according to the faith that we have;
if it is to serve, we should serve; if it is to teach, we should teach;
if it is to encourage others, we should do so. Whoever shares with others should do it generously; whoever has authority should work hard; whoever shows kindness to others should do it cheerfully.
1 Corinthians 10:17 Because there is one loaf of bread, all of us, though many, are one body, for we share the same loaf.
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