Being filled with the Spirit creates a work ethic honoring to and blessed by God.

Paul discusses the role responsibilities within marriage, only possible through the filling of the Spirit (5:18).

The walk of wisdom includes redeeming opportunities, seeking God’s will and being filled daily with the Spirit.

Paul challenges believers to a walk of love, and a walk in the light.

Paul illustrates his strategy for holiness (detailed in 4:17-24) with 5 specific illustrations.

Paul describes Christ’s dispensing of gifted leaders to the church to equip the saints for ministry and to edify the church so that it can be unified around sound doctrine and achieve growth and maturity in Christ.

Paul describes the walk of unity, which, as with our Trintarian God, manifests a unique diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.

Paul prays for the Holy Spirit’s transforming power, for Jesus to be the controlling force in our lives and for the capacity to fully understand and know the riches of God and His love.

Paul explains the “mystery” of Jew and Gentile sharing equally in New Covenant blessings in the church.

Paul describes the unified body of Christ—Jew and Gentile together—as a new kingdom, a new family and a new Temple.