Companion summary Themes, outlines & translation notes Every chapter's theme and argument outline, the textual notes, and a table of the major exegetical cruxes.

1. 1 Ephesians 1 Α′ The berakah of God's saving plan in Christ — election, redemption, and the sealing Spirit — climaxing in the prayer to know the power that raised and enthroned Christ as head over all things for the church. 23 verses · 401 words PDF
2. 2 Ephesians 2 Β′ From death to life by grace through faith, and the two — Jew and Gentile — reconciled in the cross into one new humanity, God's holy temple. 22 verses · 362 words PDF
3. 3 Ephesians 3 Γ′ The mystery now revealed — Gentiles fellow-heirs in Christ — Paul's stewardship of it before the watching powers, and the prayer to be filled with all the fullness of God, closing in doxology. 21 verses · 325 words PDF
4. 4 Ephesians 4 Δ′ The hinge from doctrine to duty: the worthy walk and the unity of the Spirit; the ascended Christ's gifts that build the body to maturity; off with the old self, on with the new. 32 verses · 481 words PDF
5. 5 Ephesians 5 Ε′ Walk in love and light and be filled with the Spirit; the household code of wives and husbands, grounded in the 'great mystery' of Christ and the church. 33 verses · 457 words PDF
6. 6 Ephesians 6 Ϛ′ The household code completed (children, parents, slaves, masters); the call to stand in God's full armor against the spiritual powers; prayer in the Spirit, and the letter's close. 24 verses · 394 words PDF