The purpose and occasion for writing each of the Prison Epistles

The first letter that Paul writes to the Ephesians, he starts out praising God and giving glory to Jesus. The Ephesians have always supported him on his ministry by giving him money. So I feel that he had a special love for them since they had done so much for him. I guess you could say he felt a little obligated to make sure that they were walking the path of Christ. He also wanted to remind them that good works are the outcome, not meritorious cause, of God’s forgiveness and gift of a new life [Colossians 2:10] He also did not want them to forget about the poor and to remember to love one another. Also in this chapter he makes mention of how the relationship between a man and a woman should be conducted as well as the relationship with Christ and the church. In Paul’s second letter that he writes to the Philippians, he was concerned about their enemies of the gospel. There must have been a rise of false prophets that came around and misleading the people. The people were not being taught the proper message that Jesus had left for the people. Paul calls these people troublemakers in his letter. Paul felt that the people were becoming selfish as well as heartless with each other. There were two women that were fighting each other that he knew. He just felt that things were not as they should be. [Philippians 4:2]. In Paul’s third letter to the Colossians, there are two reasons why he is writing them. First: He wants them to know of his interest in them as well as how much he cares for them, in short that they had not been forgotten. Second: involved some misleading and false teaching that were going on in the church.