And He raised us with Him and through union with Christ Jesus He made us sit down with Him in the heavenly realm,

For it is by His unmerited favor through faith that you have been saved; it is not by anything that you have done, it is the gift of God.

For He Himself is our peace, He is the one who has made us both into one body and has broken down the barrier that kept us apart;

What does "He went up" mean, except that He had first gone down into the lower regions of the earth?

The very One that went down has gone up, too, far above all the heavens, to fill the universe.

If you do get angry, you must stop sinning in your anger. Do not ever let the sun go down on your anger;

Stop letting anyone deceive you with groundless arguments about these things, for it is because of these very sins that God's anger comes down upon the disobedient.

So it is said: "Wake up, sleeper; get up from the dead, and Christ will make day dawn on you."

for you know that everyone, slave or free, will get his reward from the Lord for anything good he has done.