In our Bible study on June 19, 2026, we concluded our series on the book of Ephesians. This final passage wraps up the Apostle Paul's letter by urging believers to stand firm in a spiritual battle, flowing directly from his earlier instructions on how to live out our faith in unity, love, and subjection to one another in the fear of Christ.

In our Bible study on June 18, 2026, we continued our journey through the book of Ephesians. The group is working through how to live a life "filled with the Spirit," a theme from earlier in chapter five, which includes living in subjection to one another. This specific passage flows directly from that idea, as Paul gives the relationship between husbands and wives as the first practical example of what mutual subjection looks like.

In our study on the evening of June 16, 2026, we continued our journey through the book of Ephesians. The group remembered that chapters one through three focus on God's grace and love, while chapters four through six are the practical application of how our lives should change because of that grace, which flows directly into today’s passage.

In our study on June 15th, 2026, we continued our journey through the book of Ephesians. The overall context for this letter is that Paul is writing to a church in Ephesus, a city that was once deeply embedded in pagan worship, to remind them that they are now one family in Christ and should live accordingly. This specific passage flows directly from the previous section (Ephesians 4:1-16), where Paul explained that the church body must work together to build itself up in love, and now he gives practical instructions on how to do that by putting off the "old man" and putting on the "new man."

In our study on June 14, 2026, we began our look into the second half of the book of Ephesians. As we learned, this is a turning point from theology to application, starting with the word "Therefore." The overall context for the church at Ephesus involved a culture steeped in pagan worship and the occult, a warning from Jesus in Revelation that they had "lost their first love," and Paul's own prophecy that false teachers would come in among them, all leading to disunity. This passage flows directly from the first three chapters, which detail God's grace toward us, by explaining how we, in turn, should show grace toward one another by using our individual gifts to build up a unified church.

In our Bible study on June 13, 2026, we continued our journey through the book of Ephesians. Paul wrote this letter to the church in Ephesus to remind them of God's grace that unites believers into one family; this specific passage explains Paul's role in revealing God's grace and offers a prayer that the Ephesians would fully grasp it.

In our Bible study on June 12, 2026, we continued our journey through the book of Ephesians. The overall context for this letter is that Paul, writing from prison in Rome, is addressing the church in Ephesus, a city steeped in occult practices, which caused tension between Jewish and Gentile believers. In chapter one, Paul reminded them of the grace they have in Christ and prayed they would understand the power of Jesus who is head over the church; this passage flows directly from that by reminding them of what that grace saved them from and what it has united them for.

In our study tonight, we began the book of Ephesians. We learned that the Apostle Paul wrote this letter from a Roman prison between 60 and 62 AD to the church in Ephesus, a pagan city dominated by the worship of Artemis. This letter was written to address a unity problem between Jewish and Gentile believers, two very different groups coming together, with the first three chapters focusing on the grace of God that saves them, and the last three chapters focusing on how they should respond to that grace by showing grace to one another.