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The letter begins with God’s gifts in Christ and a vision of people brought together across division. Its later instructions connect that shared calling with speech, relationships and daily conduct. Unity is something to practice, not merely an idea to affirm.
EDITORIAL REFLECTION · NOT SCRIPTURE
Read by paragraph, keeping the argument in view. Words that connect sentences often tell you whether the writer is explaining, contrasting, giving a reason, or drawing a conclusion. A familiar verse gains depth when those connections remain visible.
Notice the people and situations named in the letter. Instructions belong to relationships and concerns, not only to a list of ideas. Summarise a paragraph in your own words, then check whether your summary accounts for all of its parts.
Use the outline to see the larger movement before settling into a chapter. Each section opens at its first chapter in the reader.
1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:
2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,
5having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
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Which ordinary habit helps protect the unity described in the opening chapters?
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