Ephesians 4
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Ephesians 4:4-13

4There is 1one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one 2hope of your calling; 53one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6one God and Father of all 4who is over all and through all and in all.

7But 5to each one of us 6grace was given 7according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8Therefore 8it says, “9When He ascended on high, He 10led captive a host of captives, And He gave gifts to men.” 9(Now this expression, “He 11ascended,” what 12does it mean except that He also 13had descended into 14the lower parts of the earth? 10He who descended is Himself also He who ascended 15far above all the heavens, so that He might 16fill all things.) 11And He 17gave 18some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as 19evangelists, and some as pastors and 20teachers, 1221for the equipping of the 22saints for the work of service, to the building up of 23the body of Christ; 13until we all attain to 24the unity of the faith, and of the 2526knowledge of the Son of God, to a 27mature man, to the measure of the stature 28which belongs to the 29fullness of Christ.

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Notes

  1. 1. Ephesians 4:4 1 Cor 12:4ff; Eph 2:16, 18 ↩
  2. 2. Ephesians 4:4 Eph 1:18 ↩
  3. 3. Ephesians 4:5 1 Cor 8:6 ↩
  4. 4. Ephesians 4:6 Rom 11:36 ↩
  5. 5. Ephesians 4:7 1 Cor 12:7, 11 ↩
  6. 6. Ephesians 4:7 Eph 3:2 ↩
  7. 7. Ephesians 4:7 Rom 12:3 ↩
  8. 8. Ephesians 4:8 Or He ↩
  9. 9. Ephesians 4:8 Ps 68:18 ↩
  10. 10. Ephesians 4:8 Col 2:15 ↩
  11. 11. Ephesians 4:9 John 3:13 ↩
  12. 12. Ephesians 4:9 Lit is it except ↩
  13. 13. Ephesians 4:9 One early ms reads had first descended ↩
  14. 14. Ephesians 4:9 Is 44:23 ↩
  15. 15. Ephesians 4:10 Eph 1:20f; Heb 4:14; 7:26 ↩
  16. 16. Ephesians 4:10 Eph 1:23 ↩
  17. 17. Ephesians 4:11 Eph 4:8 ↩
  18. 18. Ephesians 4:11 Acts 13:1; 1 Cor 12:28 ↩
  19. 19. Ephesians 4:11 Acts 21:8 ↩
  20. 20. Ephesians 4:11 Acts 13:1 ↩
  21. 21. Ephesians 4:12 2 Cor 13:9 ↩
  22. 22. Ephesians 4:12 Or holy ones ↩
  23. 23. Ephesians 4:12 1 Cor 12:27; Eph 1:23 ↩
  24. 24. Ephesians 4:13 Eph 4:3, 5 ↩
  25. 25. Ephesians 4:13 Or true knowledge ↩
  26. 26. Ephesians 4:13 John 6:69; Eph 1:17; Phil 3:10 ↩
  27. 27. Ephesians 4:13 1 Cor 14:20; Col 1:28; Heb 5:14 ↩
  28. 28. Ephesians 4:13 Lit of the fullness ↩
  29. 29. Ephesians 4:13 John 1:16; Eph 1:23 ↩

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