New American Standard Bible 1995

Ephesians 4:2-16

2with all 1humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another 2in love, 3being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the 3bond of peace. 4There is 4one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one 5hope of your calling; 5 6one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6one God and Father of all 7who is over all and through all and in all.

7But 8to each one of us 9grace was given 10according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8Therefore 11it says, “12When He ascended on high, He 13led captive a host of captives, And He gave gifts to men.” 9(Now this expression, “He 14ascended,” what 15does it mean except that He also 16had descended into 17the lower parts of the earth? 10He who descended is Himself also He who ascended 18far above all the heavens, so that He might 19fill all things.) 11And He 20gave 21some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as 22evangelists, and some as pastors and 23teachers, 12 24for the equipping of the 25saints for the work of service, to the building up of 26the body of Christ; 13until we all attain to 27the unity of the faith, and of the 28 29knowledge of the Son of God, to a 30mature man, to the measure of the stature 31which belongs to the 32fullness of Christ. 14 33As a result, we are 34no longer to be children, 35tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by 36craftiness 37in 38deceitful scheming; 15but 39speaking the truth 40in love, 41we are to 42grow up in all aspects into Him who is the 43head, even Christ, 16from whom 44the whole body, being fitted and held together 45by what every joint supplies, according to the 46proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself 47in love.

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Notes

1. Ephesians 4:2 Col 3:12f ↩
2. Ephesians 4:2 Eph 1:4 ↩
3. Ephesians 4:3 Col 3:14f ↩
4. Ephesians 4:4 1 Cor 12:4ff; Eph 2:16, 18 ↩
5. Ephesians 4:4 Eph 1:18 ↩
6. Ephesians 4:5 1 Cor 8:6 ↩
7. Ephesians 4:6 Rom 11:36 ↩
8. Ephesians 4:7 1 Cor 12:7, 11 ↩
9. Ephesians 4:7 Eph 3:2 ↩
10. Ephesians 4:7 Rom 12:3 ↩
11. Ephesians 4:8 Or He ↩
12. Ephesians 4:8 Ps 68:18 ↩
13. Ephesians 4:8 Col 2:15 ↩
14. Ephesians 4:9 John 3:13 ↩
15. Ephesians 4:9 Lit is it except ↩
16. Ephesians 4:9 One early ms reads had first descended ↩
17. Ephesians 4:9 Is 44:23 ↩
18. Ephesians 4:10 Eph 1:20f; Heb 4:14; 7:26 ↩
19. Ephesians 4:10 Eph 1:23 ↩
20. Ephesians 4:11 Eph 4:8 ↩
21. Ephesians 4:11 Acts 13:1; 1 Cor 12:28 ↩
22. Ephesians 4:11 Acts 21:8 ↩
23. Ephesians 4:11 Acts 13:1 ↩
24. Ephesians 4:12 2 Cor 13:9 ↩
25. Ephesians 4:12 Or holy ones ↩
26. Ephesians 4:12 1 Cor 12:27; Eph 1:23 ↩
27. Ephesians 4:13 Eph 4:3, 5 ↩
28. Ephesians 4:13 Or true knowledge ↩
29. Ephesians 4:13 John 6:69; Eph 1:17; Phil 3:10 ↩
30. Ephesians 4:13 1 Cor 14:20; Col 1:28; Heb 5:14 ↩
31. Ephesians 4:13 Lit of the fullness ↩
32. Ephesians 4:13 John 1:16; Eph 1:23 ↩
33. Ephesians 4:14 Lit So that we will no longer be ↩
34. Ephesians 4:14 1 Cor 14:20 ↩
35. Ephesians 4:14 James 1:6; Jude 12 ↩
36. Ephesians 4:14 1 Cor 3:19; 2 Cor 4:2; 11:3 ↩
37. Ephesians 4:14 Lit with regard to the scheming of deceit ↩
38. Ephesians 4:14 Eph 6:11 ↩
39. Ephesians 4:15 Or holding to or being truthful in ↩
40. Ephesians 4:15 Eph 1:4 ↩
41. Ephesians 4:15 Or let us grow up ↩
42. Ephesians 4:15 Eph 2:21 ↩
43. Ephesians 4:15 Eph 1:22 ↩
44. Ephesians 4:16 Rom 12:4f; Col 2:19 ↩
45. Ephesians 4:16 Lit through every joint of the supply ↩
46. Ephesians 4:16 Lit working in measure ↩
47. Ephesians 4:16 Eph 1:4 ↩

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