Ephesians Philippians Colossians

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Ephesians Philippians Colossians
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• 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.
  (Ephesians 41 GN)
• For the sake of this gospel I am an ambassador,
  though now I am in prison. (Ephesians 620 GN)
• As a result, the whole palace guard and all the
  others here know that I am in prison because I am
  a servant of Christ. (Philippians 113 GN)
• At the same time pray also for us, so that God
  will give us a good opportunity to preach his
  message about the secret of Christ. For that is
  why I am now in prison. (Colossians 43 GN)

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• There is much we have to say about this matter,
  but it is hard to explain to you, because you are
  so slow to understand. (Hebrews 511 GN)
• As a matter of fact, my friends, I could not
  talk to you as I talk to people who have the
  Spirit I had to talk to you as though you
  belonged to this world, as children in the
  Christian faith. I had to feed you milk, not
  solid food, because you were not ready for it.
  (1 Corinthians 31-3 GN)

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• And so we shall all come together to that
  oneness in our faith and in our knowledge of the
  Son of God we shall become mature people,
  reaching to the very height of Christ's full
  stature. Then we shall no longer be children,
  carried by the waves and blown about by every
  shifting wind of the teaching of deceitful
  people, who lead others into error by the tricks
  they invent. Instead, by speaking the truth in a
  spirit of love, we must grow up in every way to
  Christ, who is the head. Under his control all
  the different parts of the body fit together, and
  the whole body is held together by every joint
  with which it is provided. So when each separate
  part works as it should, the whole body grows and
  builds itself up through love. (Ephesians
  413-16 GN)

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• God did what he had purposed, and made known to
  us the secret plan he had already decided to
  complete by means of Christ. This plan, which God
  will complete when the time is right, is to bring
  all creation together, everything in heaven and
  on earth, with Christ as head. All things are
  done according to God's plan and decision and
  God chose us to be his own people in union with
  Christ because of his own purpose, based on what
  he had decided from the very beginning.
  (Ephesians 19-11 GN)
• Through the Son, then, God decided to bring the
  whole universe back to himself. God made peace
  through his Sons blood on the cross and so
  brought back to himself all things, both on earth
  and in heaven. (Colossians 120 GN)

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• In our union with Christ Jesus he raised us up
  with him to rule with him in the heavenly world.
  He did this to demonstrate for all time to come
  the extraordinary greatness of his grace in the
  love he showed us in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians
  26-7 GN)
• We, however, are citizens of heaven, and we
  eagerly wait for our Savior, the Lord Jesus
  Christ, to come from heaven. (Philippians 320
  GN)

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• So then, you Gentiles are not foreigners or
  strangers any longer you are now citizens
  together with God's people and members of the
  family of God. You, too, are built upon the
  foundation laid by the apostles and prophets, the
  cornerstone being Christ Jesus himself. He is the
  one who holds the whole building together and
  makes it grow into a sacred temple dedicated to
  the Lord. (Ephesians 219-21)

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• Come to Christ, who is the living cornerstone of
  Gods temple. He was rejected by the people, but
  he is precious to God who chose him. And now God
  is building you, as living stones, into his
  spiritual temple. What's more, you are God's holy
  priests, who offer the spiritual sacrifices that
  please him because of Jesus Christ. (1 Peter
  24-6, NLT)
• I will make those who are victorious pillars in
  the temple of my God, and they will never leave
  it. (Revelation 312 GN)

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• You are also God's building. Using the gift that
  God gave me, I did the work of an expert builder
  and laid the foundation, and someone else is
  building on it. But each of you must be careful
  how you build. For God has already placed Jesus
  Christ as the one and only foundation, and no
  other foundation can be laid. Surely you know
  that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit
  lives in you! God will destroy anyone who
  destroys God's temple. For God's temple is holy,
  and you yourselves are his temple. (1
  Corinthians 39-17 GN)

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• Don't you know that your body is a temple that
  belongs to the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit, whom
  you received from God, lives in you. (1
  Corinthians 619 GODS WORD)
• For we are the temple of the living God! As God
  himself has said, I will make my home with my
  people and live among them I will be their God,
  and they shall be my people (2 Corinthians 616
  GN)

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• The little horn who grew strong enough to attack
  the army of heaven, the stars themselves, and it
  threw some of them to the ground and trampled on
  them. It even defied the Prince of the heavenly
  army, stopped the daily sacrifices offered to
  him, and ruined the Temple. People sinned there
  instead of offering the proper daily sacrifices,
  and true religion was thrown to the ground. The
  horn was successful in everything it did.
  (Daniel 810-12 GN)

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• And he said to him and to me, For 2,300 evenings
  and mornings then the sanctuary shall be
  cleansed and restored. (Daniel 814 - Amplified)

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• On that day the ritual is to be performed to
  purify them from all their sins, so that they
  will be ritually clean. (Leviticus 1630 GN)
• The High Priest, properly ordained and
  consecrated to succeed his father, is to perform
  the ritual of purification. He shall put on the
  priestly garments and perform the ritual to
  purify the Most Holy Place, the rest of the Tent
  of the LORD's presence, the altar, the priests,
  and all the people of the community. These
  regulations are to be observed for all time to
  come. This ritual must be performed once a year
  to purify the people of Israel from all their
  sins. So Moses did as the LORD had commanded.
  (Leviticus 1632-34 GN)

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• It is the duty of priests to teach the true
  knowledge of God. People should go to them to
  learn my will, because they are the messengers of
  the LORD Almighty. But now you priests have
  turned away from the right path. Your teaching
  has led many to do wrong. You have broken the
  covenant I made with you. (Malachi 27-8 GN)
• The people of Judah have broken their promise to
  God and done a horrible thing in Jerusalem and
  all over the country. They have defiled the
  Temple which the LORD loves. (Malachi 211 GN)

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• No one will say, Look, here it is! or, There
  it is! because the Kingdom of God is within
  you. (Luke 1721 GN)
• Jesus noticed how wise his answer was, and so he
  told him, You are not far from the Kingdom of
  God. (Mark 1234 GN)
• Do not let anyone deceive you in any way. For
  the Day will not come until the final Rebellion
  takes place and the Wicked One appears, who is
  destined to hell. He will oppose every so-called
  god or object of worship and will put himself
  above them all. He will even go in and sit down
  in Gods Temple and claim to be God. (2
  Thessalonians 23,4 GN)

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• Paul sent messengers to the city of Ephesus and
  called the spiritual leaders of the church to
  meet with him in Miletus. (Acts 2017)
• But I don't place any value on my own life. I
  want to finish the race I'm running. I want to
  carry out the mission I received from the Lord
  Jesus-the mission of testifying to the Good News
  of God's kindness. (Acts 2024)
• I am now entrusting you to God and to his
  message that tells how kind he is. That message
  can help you grow and can give you the
  inheritance that is shared by all of God's holy
  people. (Acts 2032)

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• I have not stopped giving thanks to God for you.
  I remember you in my prayers and ask the God of
  our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, to
  give you the Spirit, who will make you wise and
  reveal God to you, so that you will know him.
  (Ephesians 116-17 GN)

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• Not only those things I reckon everything as
  complete loss for the sake of what is so much
  more valuable, the knowledge of Christ Jesus my
  Lord. For his sake I have thrown everything away
  I consider it all as mere garbage, so that I may
  gain Christ and be completely united with himAll
  I want is to know Christ and to experience the
  power of his resurrection, to share in his
  sufferings and become like him in his death, in
  the hope that I myself will be raised from death
  to life. I do not claim that I have already
  succeeded or have already become perfect.
  (Philippians 38-12 GN)

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• For this reason we have always prayed for you,
  ever since we heard about you. We ask God to fill
  you with the knowledge of his will, with all the
  wisdom and understanding that his Spirit gives.
  Then you will be able to live as the Lord wants
  and will always do what pleases him. Your lives
  will produce all kinds of good deeds, and you
  will grow in your knowledge of God. (Colossians
  19-10 GN)

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• I ask God from the wealth of his glory to give
  you power through his Spirit to be strong in your
  inner selves, and I pray that Christ will make
  his home in your hearts through faith. I pray
  that you may have your roots and foundation in
  love, so that you, together with all God's
  people, may have the power to understand how
  broad and long, how high and deep, is Christ's
  love. Yes, may you come to know his
  love---although it can never be fully known---and
  so be completely filled with the very nature of
  God. To him who by means of his power working in
  us is able to do so much more than we can ever
  ask for, or even think of to God be the glory in
  the church and in Christ Jesus for all time,
  forever and ever! Amen. (Ephesians 316-21 GN)
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• 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.
  (Ephesians 41-2 GN)

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• So get rid of your old self, which made you live
  as you used to---the old self that was being
  destroyed by its deceitful desires. Your hearts
  and minds must be made completely new, and you
  must put on the new self, which is created in
  God's likeness and reveals itself in the true
  life that is upright and holy. (Ephesians
  422-24 GN)

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• You are the people of God he loved you and
  chose you for his own. So then, you must clothe
  yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility,
  gentleness, and patience. Be tolerant with one
  another and forgive one another whenever any of
  you has a complaint against someone else. You
  must forgive one another just as the Lord has
  forgiven you. And to all these qualities add
  love, which binds all things together in perfect
  unity. The peace that Christ gives is to guide
  you in the decisions you make for it is to this
  peace that God has called you together in the one
  body. (Colossians 312-15 GN)

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• Your life in Christ makes you strong, and his
  love comforts you. You have fellowship with the
  Spirit, and you have kindness and compassion for
  one another. I urge you, then, to make me
  completely happy by having the same thoughts,
  sharing the same love, and being one in soul and
  mind. Don't do anything from selfish ambition or
  from a cheap desire to boast, but be humble
  toward one another, always considering others
  better than yourselves. And look out for one
  another's interests, not just for your own.
  (Philippians 21-4 GN)

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• Get rid of all bitterness, passion, and anger.
  No more shouting or insults, no more hateful
  feelings of any sort. Instead, be kind and
  tender-hearted to one another, and forgive one
  another, as God has forgiven you through Christ.
  Since you are God's dear children, you must try
  to be like him. Your life must be controlled by
  love, just as Christ loved us and gave his life
  for us as a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice
  that pleases God. (Ephesians 431-52 GN)

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• God uses us to make the knowledge about Christ
  spread everywhere like a sweet fragrance. For we
  are like a sweet-smelling incense offered by
  Christ to God, which spreads among those who are
  being saved and those who are being lost. For
  those who are being lost, it is a deadly stench
  that kills but for those who are being saved, it
  is a fragrance that brings life. (2 Corinthians
  214-16 GN)

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• Get rid of all bitterness, passion, and anger.
  No more shouting or insults, no more hateful
  feelings of any sort. Instead, be kind and
  tender-hearted to one another, and forgive one
  another, as God has forgiven you through Christ.
  Since you are God's dear children, you must try
  to be like him. Your life must be controlled by
  love, just as Christ loved us and gave his life
  for us as a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice
  that pleases God. (Ephesians 431-52 GN)

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• You yourselves used to be in the darkness, but
  since you have become the Lord's people, you are
  in the light. So you must live like people who
  belong to the light, for it is the light that
  brings a rich harvest of every kind of goodness,
  righteousness, and truth. (Ephesians 58-9 GN)

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• As the scripture says, For this reason a man
  will leave his father and mother and unite with
  his wife, and the two will become one. There is
  a deep secret truth revealed in this scripture,
  which I understand as applying to Christ and the
  church. (Ephesians 531-33 GN)

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• Lover
• The relationship you can have with me is no less
  intense than that of a young couple in love (Song
  of Songs)
• Bridegroom on the wedding day
• I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the
  first heaven and earth had disappeared, and the
  sea was gone. Then I saw the holy city, New
  Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven,
  dressed like a bride ready for her husband. I
  heard a loud voice from the throne say, God
  lives with humans! God will make his home with
  them, and they will be his people. God himself
  will be with them and be their God. (Revelation
  211-3 GODS WORD)
• Loving husband
• If you leave me to become a prostitute, I will
  seek you out to fully restore you as my wife
  (Hosea)

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• The good Shepherd
• Im like a shepherd to you my sheep (Psalm 23)
• If you are the only one out of 100 that leave, I
  will drop everything to find you (Jesus)
• My sheep know my voice, and I know them (Jesus)
• I am willing to lay down my life for my sheep
  (Jesus)

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• Caring vineyard owner
• Ill sing a ballad to the one I love, a love
  ballad about his vineyard The one I love had a
  vineyard, a fine, well-placed vineyard. He hoed
  the soil and pulled the weeds, and planted the
  very best vines. He built a lookout, built a
  winepress, a vineyard to be proud of. (Isaiah
  51,2 The Message)
• Friend
• I do not call you servants any longer, because
  servants do not know what their master is doing.
  Instead, I call you friends. (John 1515 GN)

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• Nursing mother
• Could a mother forget a child who nurses at her
  breast? Could she fail to love an infant who came
  from her own body? Even if a mother could forget,
  I will never forget you. (Isaiah 4915 CEV)
• Mother hen
• Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and
  stone the messengers God has sent you! How many
  times I wanted to put my arms around all your
  people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under
  her wings, but you would not let me! (Matthew
  2337 GN)
• Tender Father
• He was still a long way from home when his
  father saw him his heart was filled with pity,
  and he ran, threw his arms around his son, and
  kissed him. (Luke 1515 GN)

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• God's plan is to make known his secret to his
  people, this rich and glorious secret which he
  has for all peoples. And the secret is that
  Christ is in you, which means that you will share
  in the glory of God. So we preach Christ to
  everyone. With all possible wisdom we warn and
  teach them in order to bring each one into God's
  presence as a mature individual in union with
  Christ. (Colossians 127-28)

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• And I was told that the number of those who were
  marked with Gods seal on their foreheads was
  144,000. (Revelation 74 GN)