Ephesians 2:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

so that through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

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  • Eph 3:12 : 12 in whom we have boldness and confident access to God by way of Christ’s faithfulness.
  • 1 Cor 12:13 : 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit.
  • Rom 5:2 : 2 through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus replied,“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“Abba, Father.”
  • John 10:7 : 7 So Jesus said again,“I tell you the solemn truth, I am the door for the sheep.
  • John 10:9 : 9 I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.
  • Eph 4:4 : 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling,
  • Gal 4:6 : 6 And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls“Abba! Father!”
  • 1 Cor 8:6 : 6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we live, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we live.
  • Col 1:12 : 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.
  • Heb 4:15-16 : 15 For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin. 16 Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help.
  • Heb 7:19 : 19 for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
  • Heb 10:19-20 : 19 Drawing Near to God in Enduring Faith Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
  • Jas 3:9 : 9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people made in God’s image.
  • 1 Pet 1:17 : 17 And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.
  • 1 Pet 1:21 : 21 Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.
  • 1 John 2:1-2 : 1 (My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One, 2 and he himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.
  • Jude 1:20 : 20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit,
  • Rom 8:26-27 : 26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God’s will.
  • Zech 12:10 : 10 “I will pour out on the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn.
  • Matt 28:19 : 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
  • John 4:21-23 : 21 Jesus said to her,“Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. 23 But a time is coming– and now is here– when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.
  • Eph 3:14 : 14 Prayer for Strengthened Love For this reason I kneel before the Father,
  • Eph 6:18 : 18 With every prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and to this end be alert, with all perseverance and petitions for all the saints.

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