Answer: spiritual wisdom and understanding
"I have never stopped thanking God for you. I pray for you constantly, asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you might grow in your knowledge of God." 1:16,17
From Quiz: Paul's Letter to the Ephesians
Answer: Like the power that raised Christ from the dead
"... That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms..." (Ephesians 1:19-20)
According to Paul's teaching the same power that raised Christ from the dead is available to, and is working in and through the lives of, those who believe in Christ.
From Quiz: BBB Bible Series: Ephesians
Answer: a minister
It says in Ephesians 3:7, "Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power."
Paul always makes it a point to let the people know that what he does is because of God, not because of his own doing.
From Quiz: Ephesians
Answer: Speak the truth in love
"Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ." (Ephesians 4 v. 14-15)
This is an idea that underlies the whole of the chapter as a mark of a new way of living. Thus, Paul returns to the idea a few verses later:
"Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body" (Ephesians 4 v. 25).
To anybody who got this question wrong, you're very welcome to come round and cut my lawn.
From Quiz: Quizzing the New Testament : Ephesians
Answer: power of the air
"Once you were dead, doomed forever because of your many sins. You used to live just like the rest of the world, full of sin, obeying Satan, the mighty prince of the power of the air. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God." 2:1,2 According to the NLT Life Application Study Bible, people during Paul's day believed that Satan and the evil spiritual forces inhabited the region between earth and sky.
From Quiz: Paul's Letter to the Ephesians
Answer: By grace
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God -- not by works, so that no one can boast." (Ephesians 2:8-9)
Central to much of Paul's teaching here was that salvation could not be earned through any human efforts or practices, but it was freely given as a gift to those who would place their faith in Christ's sacrificial death on the cross for the forgiveness of their sins.
From Quiz: BBB Bible Series: Ephesians
Answer: the least
It says in Ephesians 3:8, "Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ."
Again, Paul insists that he is not better than anyone, so we know Paul was not filled with pride.
From Quiz: Ephesians
Answer: gift
"God saved you by his special favor when you believed. And you can't take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it." 2:8,9
From Quiz: Paul's Letter to the Ephesians
Answer: Believers
"And God raised us [the church] up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus." (Ephesians 2:6-7)
Believers aren't physically seated in the heavenly realms, of course, but according to Paul's teaching, spiritually they enjoy the privilege of sharing in Christ's victorious death and resurrection.
From Quiz: BBB Bible Series: Ephesians
Answer: 1
It says in Ephesians 4:6, "One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all."
From Quiz: Ephesians
