Paul's letters
The book of Ephesians
The church as Christ’s body: God’s plan to unite all things in Christ, and how believers should live.
Paul wrote from prison (Ephesians 3:1; 4:1; 6:20), probably in Rome, and sent it with Tychicus (6:21–22). It may have been a circular letter to churches around Ephesus.
Written at: Rome, by tradition (Acts 28:30; Ephesians 6:20)
Kinds of writing
- Letter 100%
Key verses
Saved by grace through faith. for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9 (World English Bible)
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On the timeline
The riot at EphesusPaul writes Ephesians, Colossians, and Philemon
Ephesians quotes or alludes to the Old Testament 5 times (counted in the site’s Old in the New).
Dating notes
Conventional chronology; Ussher: AD 64. The span is an estimate; Scripture doesn’t say when the book was written.