INTRODUCTION:

(Deuteronomy 4:2 [KJV])
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

(Proverbs 30:5, 6 [KJV])
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

(Isaiah 28:10 [KJV])
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

(Isaiah 28:13 [KJV])
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

(2 Peter 1:20 [KJV])
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

All of the studies found here, whether book studies or topical studies, are done with research with mainly two things: The KING JAMES BIBLE and a plain old, 1828 Webster's Dictionary. Why? Outside of actually studying secular and Jewish history recorded in the Word of God and in any ancient records from many, which records support it, plus archaeology, one needs nothing more. You do not need foreign, dead languages that no one speaks, nor lexicons, nor concordances, nor commentaries, because they differ not only with one another and with the KING JAMES BIBLE, they create division, confusion, debate, and unbelief, apostasy, and a falling away from God Himself. We do not need them. That Word of God, written and preserved for us in our own language, is supposed to be enough, like the Old Testament was for the Jews, and as the New Testament was for the early Christians in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, German, etc.

There are studies within as tangents on words, subjects found within the two testaments, as to broaden the scope of the study, to learn more, deeper truths. This is not an intellectual site with PhDs, theologians, and no worldly wisdom.. Check everything out, everything. Not just here, but with everything you read and see and hear. Be Bereans:

(Acts 17:11 [KJV])
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

(1 Thessalonians 2:13 [KJV])
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Always research for yourself, use all of the context, and never privately interpret!

Introduction/Start of study

Ephesians Chapter 2

(Ephesians 2:1)
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
(Ephesians 2:2)
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
(Psalms 56:9)
When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

(Romans 8:31)
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

(1 John 4:4)
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

(Ephesians 2:3)
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
(Ephesians 2:4)
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
(Ephesians 2:5)
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ,
(John 11:25)
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

(1 Corinthians 15:20)
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

(1 Corinthians 15:23)
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

(James 1:18)
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. (by grace ye are saved;)
(Romans 11:6)
And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

(Ephesians 2:6)
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
(Ephesians 2:7)
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
(Ephesians 2:8)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
(Ephesians 2:9)
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
(Romans 7:18)
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

(Isaiah 64:6)
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

(Ephesians 2:10)
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
(Ephesians 2:11)
Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
(1 Corinthians 10:32)
Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

(1 Corinthians 12:2)
Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

(Galatians 3:28)
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

(Ephesians 2:12)
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
(Ephesians 2:13)
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
(Ephesians 2:14)
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
(Isaiah 9:6)
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

(Ephesians 2:15)
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
(Ephesians 2:16)
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
(Ephesians 2:17)
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
(Ephesians 2:18)
For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
(Ephesians 2:19)
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

HOUSEHOLD, n. hous'hold. Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family; those who belong to a family. I baptized also the household of Stephanus. 1 Cor 1.
1. Family life; domestic management.

(Ephesians 2:20)
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
(Ephesians 2:21)
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
FIT'LY, adv.
1. Suitably; properly; with propriety. A maxim fitly applied.
2. Commodiously; conveniently.

(Ephesians 2:22)
In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Ephesians Chapter 3