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Read: 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. I feel like today’s verses are pretty straight forward yet we live lives mainly opposed to this. This… Read More »

Read: 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Wow… grieve is defined as causing great pain, deep anguish, so bad that this word is used to define childbirth. Did you know you could grieve the Holy Spirit? The nudge here is that… Read More »

Read: 29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. This verse is nestled in a list of other application verses. Paul has given us a command to put off our old self and put on our new self,… Read More »

Read: 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil. As Paul writes under the inspiration of the Spirit he recognizes that we are all going to experience things that anger us but it’s what we do with those emotions that signify our… Read More »

Read: We have been walking through Ephesians and seeing what the correct effect of the Gospel is. It is more than just an insurance plan, but a renewal of our minds, a change in life, and an ability given to us to actually walk in truth. We were instructed to get rid of our old… Read More »

Read: 20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be… Read More »

Read: 17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the… Read More »

Rejoice: Read: 17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.… Read More »