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EPHESIANS |
Chapter
1
EPH
1:1 Paul, an
apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of
God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and
who are faithful in Christ Jesus:
EPH 1:2 Grace to you and peace from
God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
EPH 1:3 Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us with every spiritual blessing
in the heavenly places in Christ,
EPH 1:4 just as He chose us in Him
before the foundation of the world, that
we should be holy and blameless before
Him. In love
EPH 1:5 He predestined us to
adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to
Himself, according to the kind intention
of His will,
EPH 1:6 to the praise of the glory
of His grace, which He freely bestowed on
us in the Beloved.
EPH 1:7 In Him we have redemption
through His blood, the forgiveness of our
trespasses, according to the riches of His
grace,
EPH 1:8 which He lavished upon us.
In all wisdom and insight
EPH 1:9 He made known to us the
mystery of His will, according to His kind
intention which He purposed in Him
EPH 1:10 with a view to an
administration suitable to the fulness of
the times, that is, the summing up of all
things in Christ, things in the heavens
and things upon the earth. In Him
EPH 1:11 also we have obtained an
inheritance, having been predestined
according to His purpose who works all
things after the counsel of His will,
EPH 1:12 to the end that we who
were the first to hope in Christ should be
to the praise of His glory.
EPH 1:13 In Him, you also, after
listening to the message of truth, the
gospel of your salvation - - having also
believed, you were sealed in Him with the
Holy Spirit of promise,
EPH 1:14 who is given as a pledge
of our inheritance, with a view to the
redemption of God's own possession, to the
praise of His glory.
EPH 1:15 For this reason I too,
having heard of the faith in the Lord
Jesus which exists among you, and your
love for all the saints,
EPH 1:16 do not cease giving thanks
for you, while making mention of you in my
prayers;
EPH 1:17 that the God of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may
give to you a spirit of wisdom and of
revelation in the knowledge of Him.
EPH 1:18 I pray that the eyes of
your heart may be enlightened, so that you
may know what is the hope of His calling,
what are the riches of the glory of His
inheritance in the saints,
EPH 1:19 and what is the surpassing
greatness of His power toward us who
believe. These are in accordance with the
working of the strength of His might
EPH 1:20 which He brought about in
Christ, when He raised Him from the dead,
and seated Him at His right hand in the
heavenly places,
EPH 1:21 far above all rule and
authority and power and dominion, and
every name that is named, not only in this
age, but also in the one to come.
EPH 1:22 And He put all things in
subjection under His feet, and gave Him as
head over all things to the church,
EPH 1:23 which is His body, the
fulness of Him who fills all in all.
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Chapter
2
EPH
2:1 And you were
dead in your trespasses and sins,
EPH 2:2 in which you formerly
walked according to the course of this
world, according to the prince of the
power of the air, of the spirit that is
now working in the sons of disobedience.
EPH 2:3 Among them we too all
formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh,
indulging the desires of the flesh and of
the mind, and were by nature children of
wrath, even as the rest.
EPH 2:4 But God, being rich in
mercy, because of His great love with
which He loved us,
EPH 2:5 even when we were dead in
our transgressions, made us alive together
with Christ (by grace you have been
saved),
EPH 2:6 and raised us up with Him,
and seated us with Him in the heavenly
places, in Christ Jesus,
EPH 2:7 in order that in the ages
to come He might show the surpassing
riches of His grace in kindness toward us
in Christ Jesus.
EPH 2:8 For by grace you have been
saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves, it is the gift of God;
EPH 2:9 not as a result of works,
that no one should boast.
EPH 2:10 For we are His
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for
good works, which God prepared beforehand,
that we should walk in them.
EPH 2:11 Therefore remember, that
formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh,
who are called "Uncircumcision" by the
so-called "Circumcision," which is
performed in the flesh by human hands - -
EPH 2:12 remember that you were at
that time separate from Christ, excluded
from the commonwealth of Israel, and
strangers to the covenants of promise,
having no hope and without God in the
world.
EPH 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus
you who formerly were far off have been
brought near by the blood of Christ.
EPH 2:14 For He Himself is our
peace, who made both groups into one, and
broke down the barrier of the dividing
wall,
EPH 2:15 by abolishing in His flesh
the enmity, which is the Law of
commandments contained in ordinances, that
in Himself He might make the two into one
new man, thus establishing peace,
EPH 2:16 and might reconcile them
both in one body to God through the cross,
by it having put to death the enmity.
EPH 2:17 And He came and preached
peace to you who were far away, and peace
to those who were near;
EPH 2:18 for through Him we both
have our access in one Spirit to the
Father.
EPH 2:19 So then you are no longer
strangers and aliens, but you are fellow
citizens with the saints, and are of God's
household,
EPH 2:20 having been built upon the
foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Christ Jesus Himself being the corner
stone,
EPH 2:21 in whom the whole
building, being fitted together is growing
into a holy temple in the Lord;
EPH 2:22 in whom you also are being
built together into a dwelling of God in
the Spirit.
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Chapter
3
EPH
3:1 For this
reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ
Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles - -
EPH 3:2 if indeed you have heard of
the stewardship of God's grace which was
given to me for you;
EPH 3:3 that by revelation there
was made known to me the mystery, as I
wrote before in brief.
EPH 3:4 And by referring to this,
when you read you can understand my
insight into the mystery of Christ,
EPH 3:5 which in other generations
was not made known to the sons of men, as
it has now been revealed to His holy
apostles and prophets in the Spirit;
EPH 3:6 to be specific, that the
Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow
members of the body, and fellow partakers
of the promise in Christ Jesus through the
gospel,
EPH 3:7 of which I was made a
minister, according to the gift of God's
grace which was given to me according to
the working of His power.
EPH 3:8 To me, the very least of
all saints, this grace was given, to
preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable
riches of Christ,
EPH 3:9 and to bring to light what
is the administration of the mystery which
for ages has been hidden in God, who
created all things;
EPH 3:10 in order that the manifold
wisdom of God might now be made known
through the church to the rulers and the
authorities in the heavenly places.
EPH 3:11 This was in accordance
with the eternal purpose which He carried
out in Christ Jesus our Lord,
EPH 3:12 in whom we have boldness
and confident access through faith in Him.
EPH 3:13 Therefore I ask you not to
lose heart at my tribulations on your
behalf, for they are your glory.
EPH 3:14 For this reason, I bow my
knees before the Father,
EPH 3:15 from whom every family in
heaven and on earth derives its name,
EPH 3:16 that He would grant you,
according to the riches of His glory, to
be strengthened with power through His
Spirit in the inner man;
EPH 3:17 so that Christ may dwell
in your hearts through faith; and that
you, being rooted and grounded in love,
EPH 3:18 may be able to comprehend
with all the saints what is the breadth
and length and height and depth,
EPH 3:19 and to know the love of
Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you
may be filled up to all the fulness of
God.
EPH 3:20 Now to Him who is able to
do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we
ask or think, according to the power that
works within us,
EPH 3:21 to Him be the glory in the
church and in Christ Jesus to all
generations forever and ever. Amen.
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Chapter
4
EPH
4:1 I,
therefore, the prisoner of the Lord,
entreat you to walk in a manner worthy of
the calling with which you have been
called,
EPH 4:2 with all humility and
gentleness, with patience, showing
forbearance to one another in love,
EPH 4:3 being diligent to preserve
the unity of the Spirit in the bond of
peace.
EPH 4:4 There is one body and one
Spirit, just as also you were called in
one hope of your calling;
EPH 4:5 one Lord, one faith, one
baptism,
EPH 4:6 one God and Father of all
who is over all and through all and in
all.
EPH 4:7 But to each one of us grace
was given according to the measure of
Christ's gift.
EPH 4:8 Therefore it says, "When He
ascended on high, He led captive a host of
captives, And He gave gifts to men."
EPH 4:9 (Now this expression, "He
ascended," what does it mean except that
He also had descended into the lower parts
of the earth?
EPH 4:10 He who descended is
Himself also He who ascended far above all
the heavens, that He might fill all
things.)
EPH 4:11 And He gave some as
apostles, and some as prophets, and some
as evangelists, and some as pastors and
teachers,
EPH 4:12 for the equipping of the
saints for the work of service, to the
building up of the body of Christ;
EPH 4:13 until we all attain to the
unity of the faith, and of the knowledge
of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the
measure of the stature which belongs to
the fulness of Christ.
EPH 4:14 As a result, we are no
longer to be children, tossed here and
there by waves, and carried about by every
wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men,
by craftiness in deceitful scheming;
EPH 4:15 but speaking the truth in
love, we are to grow up in all aspects
into Him, who is the head, even Christ,
EPH 4:16 from whom the whole body,
being fitted and held together by that
which every joint supplies, according to
the proper working of each individual
part, causes the growth of the body for
the building up of itself in love.
EPH 4:17 This I say therefore, and
affirm together with the Lord, that you
walk no longer just as the Gentiles also
walk, in the futility of their mind,
EPH 4:18 being darkened in their
understanding, excluded from the life of
God, because of the ignorance that is in
them, because of the hardness of their
heart;
EPH 4:19 and they, having become
callous, have given themselves over to
sensuality, for the practice of every kind
of impurity with greediness.
EPH 4:20 But you did not learn
Christ in this way,
EPH 4:21 if indeed you have heard
Him and have been taught in Him, just as
truth is in Jesus,
EPH 4:22 that, in reference to your
former manner of life, you lay aside the
old self, which is being corrupted in
accordance with the lusts of deceit,
EPH 4:23 and that you be renewed in
the spirit of your mind,
EPH 4:24 and put on the new self,
which in the likeness of God has been
created in righteousness and holiness of
the truth.
EPH 4:25 Therefore, laying aside
falsehood, speak truth, each one of you,
with his neighbor, for we are members of
one another.
EPH 4:26 Be angry, and yet do not
sin; do not let the sun go down on your
anger,
EPH 4:27 and do not give the devil
an opportunity.
EPH 4:28 Let him who steals steal
no longer; but rather let him labor,
performing with his own hands what is
good, in order that he may have something
to share with him who has need.
EPH 4:29 Let no unwholesome word
proceed from your mouth, but only such a
word as is good for edification according
to the need of the moment, that it may
give grace to those who hear.
EPH 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy
Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for
the day of redemption.
EPH 4:31 Let all bitterness and
wrath and anger and clamor and slander be
put away from you, along with all malice.
EPH 4:32 And be kind to one
another, tender-hearted, forgiving each
other, just as God in Christ also has
forgiven you.
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Chapter
5
EPH
5:1 Therefore be
imitators of God, as beloved children;
EPH 5:2 and walk in love, just as
Christ also loved you, and gave Himself up
for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God
as a fragrant aroma.
EPH 5:3 But do not let immorality
or any impurity or greed even be named
among you, as is proper among saints;
EPH 5:4 and there must be no
filthiness and silly talk, or coarse
jesting, which are not fitting, but rather
giving of thanks.
EPH 5:5 For this you know with
certainty, that no immoral or impure
person or covetous man, who is an
idolater, has an inheritance in the
kingdom of Christ and God.
EPH 5:6 Let no one deceive you with
empty words, for because of these things
the wrath of God comes upon the sons of
disobedience.
EPH 5:7 Therefore do not be
partakers with them;
EPH 5:8 for you were formerly
darkness, but now you are light in the
Lord; walk as children of light
EPH 5:9 (for the fruit of the light
consists in all goodness and righteousness
and truth),
EPH 5:10 trying to learn what is
pleasing to the Lord.
EPH 5:11 And do not participate in
the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but
instead even expose them;
EPH 5:12 for it is disgraceful even
to speak of the things which are done by
them in secret.
EPH 5:13 But all things become
visible when they are exposed by the
light, for everything that becomes visible
is light.
EPH 5:14 For this reason it says,
"Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead,
And Christ will shine on you."
EPH 5:15 Therefore be careful how
you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise,
EPH 5:16 making the most of your
time, because the days are evil.
EPH 5:17 So then do not be foolish,
but understand what the will of the Lord
is.
EPH 5:18 And do not get drunk with
wine, for that is dissipation, but be
filled with the Spirit,
EPH 5:19 speaking to one another in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and making melody with your heart
to the Lord;
EPH 5:20 always giving thanks for
all things in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ to God, even the Father;
EPH 5:21 and be subject to one
another in the fear of Christ.
EPH 5:22 Wives, be subject to your
own husbands, as to the Lord.
EPH 5:23 For the husband is the
head of the wife, as Christ also is the
head of the church, He Himself being the
Savior of the body.
EPH 5:24 But as the church is
subject to Christ, so also the wives ought
to be to their husbands in everything.
EPH 5:25 Husbands, love your wives,
just as Christ also loved the church and
gave Himself up for her;
EPH 5:26 that He might sanctify
her, having cleansed her by the washing of
water with the word,
EPH 5:27 that He might present to
Himself the church in all her glory,
having no spot or wrinkle or any such
thing; but that she should be holy and
blameless.
EPH 5:28 So husbands ought also to
love their own wives as their own bodies.
He who loves his own wife loves himself;
EPH 5:29 for no one ever hated his
own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it,
just as Christ also does the church,
EPH 5:30 because we are members of
His body.
EPH 5:31 For this cause a man shall
leave his father and mother, and shall
cleave to his wife; and the two shall
become one flesh.
EPH 5:32 This mystery is great; but
I am speaking with reference to Christ and
the church.
EPH 5:33 Nevertheless let each
individual among you also love his own
wife even as himself; and let the wife see
to it that she respect her husband.
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Chapter
6
EPH
6:1 Children,
obey your parents in the Lord, for this is
right.
EPH 6:2 Honor your father and
mother (which is the first commandment
with a promise),
EPH 6:3 that it may be well with
you, and that you may live long on the
earth.
EPH 6:4 And, fathers, do not
provoke your children to anger; but bring
them up in the discipline and instruction
of the Lord.
EPH 6:5 Slaves, be obedient to
those who are your masters according to
the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the
sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;
EPH 6:6 not by way of eyeservice,
as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ,
doing the will of God from the heart.
EPH 6:7 With good will render
service, as to the Lord, and not to men,
EPH 6:8 knowing that whatever good
thing each one does, this he will receive
back from the Lord, whether slave or free.
EPH 6:9 And, masters, do the same
things to them, and give up threatening,
knowing that both their Master and yours
is in heaven, and there is no partiality
with Him.
EPH 6:10 Finally, be strong in the
Lord, and in the strength of His might.
EPH 6:11 Put on the full armor of
God, that you may be able to stand firm
against the schemes of the devil.
EPH 6:12 For our struggle is not
against flesh and blood, but against the
rulers, against the powers, against the
world forces of this darkness, against the
spiritual forces of wickedness in the
heavenly places.
EPH 6:13 Therefore, take up the
full armor of God, that you may be able to
resist in the evil day, and having done
everything, to stand firm.
EPH 6:14 Stand firm therefore,
having girded your loins with truth, and
having put on the breastplate of
righteousness,
EPH 6:15 and having shod your feet
with the preparation of the gospel of
peace;
EPH 6:16 in addition to all, taking
up the shield of faith with which you will
be able to extinguish all the flaming
missiles of the evil one.
EPH 6:17 And take the helmet of
salvation, and the sword of the Spirit,
which is the word of God.
EPH 6:18 With all prayer and
petition pray at all times in the Spirit,
and with this in view, be on the alert
with all perseverance and petition for all
the saints,
EPH 6:19 and pray on my behalf,
that utterance may be given to me in the
opening of my mouth, to make known with
boldness the mystery of the gospel,
EPH 6:20 for which I am an
ambassador in chains; that in proclaiming
it I may speak boldly, as I ought to
speak.
EPH 6:21 But that you also may know
about my circumstances, how I am doing,
Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful
minister in the Lord, will make everything
known to you.
EPH 6:22 And I have sent him to you
for this very purpose, so that you may
know about us, and that he may comfort
your hearts.
EPH 6:23 Peace be to the brethren,
and love with faith, from God the Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
EPH 6:24 Grace be with all those
who love our Lord Jesus Christ with a love
incorruptible.
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