New Testament Handout #9 - Ephesians and Philippians New Testament Handout #10 - Colossians and Philemon

1. The Prison Epistles- are _________________, __________________,
___________ and _________________________________.
2. Ephesians has been called the ____________________________ of
the epistles.
1. The central theme of Colossians is the_____________________
of _________________ is in _____________________________.
2. Colossians in very similar to ___________________________.

3. Paul visited Ephesus during his ____________________missionary 3. Colossians contains a wonderful expression of who
journey (Ac.18v18-21).
__________________ is- maybe the clearest expression is
4. He left __________________and ______________________ there to help scripture.
the Ephesians.
4. In Christ are hidden all the treasures of _______________ and
5. Paul exerted so much influence there that the________________-

_________________ became worried and incited a ____________________

against him (Ac.19v21-41).
6. Ephesians is quite similar to ________________________. There are 78
verses between them which are almost the same.
____________________ 2:10.
5. Christ is the __________________ of the invisible God, the
_______________________________ over all creation. 1:15.

7. The theme is the Church is the __________________ of _____________. That means Christ is ____________________ and that He is

8. The church is like a _________________ with _________________- as
head. It is like a ________________ with __________________ as the
cornerstone. It is like a ________________ with Christ as the ___________.
9. The purpose of the church is A) to be ____________________________
B) to do ___________________ _______________________________- 2:10
and C) to spread the _____________________ throughout the earth.
___________________________________ over His creation.
6. The heresy that the Colossians church faced is called
___________________________________________.
7. The _________________separated matter from thought. They
considered matter as evil and thought (knowledge) as the ultimate
for salvation. They thought the ___________________________
was evil and the ________________________________ was
good.

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8. The result led into two different directions:
A) _________________________________________ Because the body
is evil you need to deny it’s desires completely.
B) _________________________________________ What is important
is your spirit and not your body. You can do anything you want with your
body, it doesn’t matter.
9. The theme of Philemon is a ______________________________
on ______________________________________________.
10. _____________________ was an escaped slave that Paul led to Christ.
11. Paul asks __________________________ , who was a member
of the ________________________________________ church,
to receive Onesimus back as a ___________________ man and no
longer as a __________________________________.
12. Paul offered to pay any _______________________________
Onesimus owed.
NT Handout # 9 (Cont)
10. The theme of Philippians is ______________________________
In the ________________________ _________________________.
11. Philippi was named after Philip of Macedon who was the father
of_________________ the _______________________.
12. When Paul planted the ___________________________ church he
was thrown into prison where he and Silas sang hymns of
praise and were delivered. Acts 16:25.
13. The main thought of Philippians is the all____________________
of _____________________________________ in any circumstance.
14. Suffering for Christ has a ___________________________.
15. We should imitate Christ’s _________________________ 2:1-11.
16. Paul says that the most important thing is, “that I may __________
____________________.”
17. The secret of contentment is, “I can do __________ ___________
Through ____________________ who _____________________me.”
Phil 4:13.
18. God is able to supply all of our_____________________________
according to His ___________________ in____________________.