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| Ephesians 4:1 | *I*, the prisoner in [the] Lord, exhort you therefore to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called, | Call upon you, then, do I the prisoner of the Lord to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, | I, then, the prisoner for the Master's sake, entreat you to live and act as becomes those who have received the call that you have received |
| Ephesians 4:2 | with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love; | with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, | with all lowliness of mind and unselfishness, and with patience, bearing with one another lovingly, and earnestly striving to maintain, |
| Ephesians 4:3 | using diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace. | being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace; | in the uniting bond of peace, the unity given by the Spirit. |
| Ephesians 4:4 | [There is] one body and one Spirit, as ye have been also called in one hope of your calling; | one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; | There is but one body and but one Spirit, as also when you were called you had one and the same hope held out to you. |
| Ephesians 4:5 | one Lord, one faith, one baptism; | one Lord, one faith, one baptism, | There is but one Lord, one faith, one baptism, |
| Ephesians 4:6 | one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all. | one God and Father of all, who [is] over all, and through all, and in you all, | and one God and Father of all, who rules over all, acts through all, and dwells in all. |
| Ephesians 4:7 | But to each one of us has been given grace according to the measure of the gift of the Christ. | and to each one of you was given the grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ, | Yet to each of us individually grace was given, measured out with the munificence of Christ. |
| Ephesians 4:8 | Wherefore he says, Having ascended up on high, he has led captivity captive, and has given gifts to men. | wherefore, he saith, `Having gone up on high he led captive captivity, and gave gifts to men,` | For this reason Scripture says: "He re-ascended on high, He led captive a host of captives, and gave gifts to men." |
| Ephesians 4:9 | But that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth? | and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went down first to the lower parts of the earth? | (Now this "re-ascended" what does it mean but that He had first descended into the lower regions of the earth? |
| Ephesians 4:10 | He that descended is the same who has also ascended up above all the heavens, that he might fill all things; | he who went down is the same also who went up far above all the heavens, that He may fill all things | He who descended is the same as He who ascended again far above all the Heavens in order to fill the universe.) |
| Ephesians 4:11 | and *he* has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers, | and He gave some [as] apostles, and some [as] prophets, and some [as] proclaimers of good news, and some [as] shepherds and teachers, | And He Himself appointed some to be Apostles, some to be Prophets, some to be evangelists, some to be pastors and teachers, |
| Ephesians 4:12 | for the perfecting of the saints; with a view to [the] work of [the] ministry, with a view to the edifying of the body of Christ; | unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ, | in order fully to equip His people for the work of serving for the building up of Christ's body |
| Ephesians 4:13 | until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at [the] full-grown man, at [the] measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ; | till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ, | till we all of us arrive at oneness in faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and at mature manhood and the stature of full-grown men in Christ. |
| Ephesians 4:14 | in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of *that* teaching [which is] in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error; | that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray, | So we shall no longer be babes nor shall we resemble mariners tossed on the waves and carried about with every changing wind of doctrine according to men's cleverness and unscrupulous cunning, making use of every shifting device to mislead. |
| Ephesians 4:15 | but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ: | and, being true in love, we may increase to Him [in] all things, who is the head the Christ; | But we shall lovingly hold to the truth, and shall in all respects grow up into union with Him who is our Head, even Christ. |
| Ephesians 4:16 | from whom the whole body, fitted together, and connected by every joint of supply, according to [the] working in [its] measure of each one part, works for itself the increase of the body to its self-building up in love. | from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love. | Dependent on Him, the whole body its various parts closely fitting and firmly adhering to one another grows by the aid of every contributory link, with power proportioned to the need of each individual part, so as to build itself up in a spirit of love. |
| Ephesians 4:17 | This I say therefore, and testify in [the] Lord, that ye should no longer walk as [the rest of] the nations walk in [the] vanity of their mind, | This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, | Therefore I warn you, and I implore you in the name of the Master, no longer to live as the Gentiles in their perverseness live, |
| Ephesians 4:18 | being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts, | being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart, | with darkened understandings, having by reason of the ignorance which is deep-seated in them and the insensibility of their moral nature, no share in the Life which God gives. |
| Ephesians 4:19 | who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust. | who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness; | Such men being past feeling have abandoned themselves to impurity, greedily indulging in every kind of profligacy. |
| Ephesians 4:20 | But *ye* have not thus learnt the Christ, | and ye did not so learn the Christ, | But these are not the lessons which you have learned from Christ; |
| Ephesians 4:21 | if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according as [the] truth is in Jesus; | if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus; | if at least you have heard His voice and in Him have been taught and this is true Christian teaching |
| Ephesians 4:22 | [namely] your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts; | ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit, | to put away, in regard to your former mode of life, your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits its misleading impulses, |
| Ephesians 4:23 | and being renewed in the spirit of your mind; | and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, | and to get yourselves renewed in the temper of your minds and clothe yourselves |
| Ephesians 4:24 | and [your] having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness. | and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth. | with that new and better self which has been created to resemble God in the righteousness and holiness which come from the truth. |
| Ephesians 4:25 | Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another. | Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another; | For this reason, laying aside falsehood, every one of you should speak the truth to his fellow man; for we are, as it were, parts of one another. |
| Ephesians 4:26 | Be angry, and do not sin; let not the sun set upon your wrath, | be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath, | If angry, beware of sinning. Let not your irritation last until the sun goes down; |
| Ephesians 4:27 | neither give room for the devil. | neither give place to the devil; | and do not leave room for the Devil. |
| Ephesians 4:28 | Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with [his] hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need. | whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need. | He who has been a thief must steal no more, but, instead of that, should work with his own hands in honest industry, so that he may have something of which he can give the needy a share. |
| Ephesians 4:29 | Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if [there be] any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear [it]. | Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers; | Let no unwholesome words ever pass your lips, but let all your words be good for benefiting others according to the need of the moment, so that they may be a means of blessing to the hearers. |
| Ephesians 4:30 | And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for [the] day of redemption. | and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption. | And beware of grieving the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you have been sealed in preparation for the day of Redemption. |
| Ephesians 4:31 | Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice; | Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice, | Let all bitterness and all passionate feeling, all anger and loud insulting language, be unknown among you and also every kind of malice. |
| Ephesians 4:32 | and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you. | and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you. | On the contrary learn to be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ has also forgiven you. |
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