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Ephesians
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| 1:4-23 |
4.
". . .just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
5. having predestined us to adoption
as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of
His will,
6. to the praise of the glory of His
grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved.
7. In Him we have redemption through
His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace
8. which He made to abound toward us
in all wisdom and prudence,
9. having made known to us the mystery
of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself,
10. that in the dispensation of the fullness
of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both
which are in heaven and which are on earth in Him,
11. in whom also we have obtained an
inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works
all things according to the counsel of His will,
12. that we who first trusted in Christ
should be to the praise of His glory.
13. In Him you also trusted, after you
heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having
believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
14. who is the guarantee of our inheritance
until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His
glory.
15. Therefore I also, after I heard of
your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
16. do not cease to give thanks for you,
making mention of you in my prayers:
17. that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation
in the knowledge of Him,
18. the eyes of your understanding being
enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are
the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
19. and what is the exceeding greatness
of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty
power
20. which He worked in Christ when He
raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly
places,
21. far above all principality and power
and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this
age but also in that which is to come.
22. And He put all things under His feet,
and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,
23. which is His body, the fullness of
Him who fills all in all." |
| 2:1-22 |
1.
"And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
2. in which you once walked according
to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the
air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,
3. among whom also we all once conducted
ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh
and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
4. But God, who is rich in mercy, because
of His great love with which He loved us,
5. even when we were dead in trespasses,
made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6. and raised us up together, and made
us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7. that in the ages to come He might
show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ
Jesus.
8. For by grace you have been saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9. not of works, lest anyone should boast.
10. For we are His workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we
should walk in them.
11. Therefore remember that you, once
Gentiles in the flesh who are called Uncircumcision by what is called
the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands
12. that at that time you were without
Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from
the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13. But now in Christ Jesus you who once
were far off have been made near by the blood of Christ.
14. For He Himself is our peace, who
has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of division between
us,
15. having abolished in His flesh the
enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as
to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,
16. and that He might reconcile them
both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the
enmity.
17. And He came and preached peace to
you who were afar off and to those who were near.
18. For through Him we both have access
by one Spirit to the Father.
19. Now, therefore, you are no longer
strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members
of the household of God,
20. having been built on the foundation
of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,
21. in whom the whole building, being
joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
22. in whom you also are being built
together for a habitation of God in the Spirit." |
| 3:1-11 |
1.
"For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for
you Gentiles
2. if indeed you have heard of the dispensation
of the grace of God which was given to me for you,
3. how that by revelation He made known
to me the mystery (as I wrote before in a few words,
4. by which, when you read, you may understand
my knowledge in the mystery of Christ),
5. which in other ages was not made known
to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy
apostles and prophets:
6. that the Gentiles should be fellow
heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through
the gospel,
7. of which I became a minister according
to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of
His power.
8. To me, who am less than the least
of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the
Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
9. and to make all people see what is
the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has
been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;
10. to the intent that now the manifold
wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities
and powers in the heavenly places,
11. according to the eternal purpose
which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, . . ." |
| 3:21 |
". . . to Him be glory
in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end.
Amen." |
| 4:1-16 |
1.
"I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to have
a walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,
2. with all lowliness and gentleness,
with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,
3. endeavoring to keep the unity of the
Spirit in the bond of peace.
4. There is one body and one Spirit,
just as you were called in one hope of your calling;
5. one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
6. one God and Father of all, who is
above all, and through all, and in you all.
7. But to each one of us grace was given
according to the measure of Christ's gift.
8. Therefore He says: "When He ascended
on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.''
9. (Now this, "He ascended'' what
does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of
the earth?
10. He who descended is also the One
who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.)
11. And He Himself gave some to be apostles,
some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
12. for the equipping of the saints for
the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
13. till we all come to the unity of
the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the
measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
14. that we should no longer be children,
tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the
trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to
deceive,
15. but, speaking the truth in love,
may grow up in all things into Him who is the head Christ
16. from whom the whole body, joined
and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective
working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body
for the edifying of itself in love." |
| 4:30 |
"And do not grieve the
Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption." |
| 5:18 |
"And do not be drunk with
wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, . . ." |
| 5:21-33 |
21.".
. .submitting to one another in the fear of God.
22. Wives, submit to your own husbands,
as to the Lord.
23. For the husband is head of the wife,
as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
24. Therefore, just as the church is
subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
25. Husbands, love your wives, just as
Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,
26. that He might sanctify and cleanse
it with the washing of water by the word,
27. that He might present it to Himself
a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that
it should be holy and without blemish.
28. So husbands ought to love their own
wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
29. For no one ever hated his own flesh,
but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.
30. For we are members of His body, of
His flesh and of His bones.
31. "For this reason a man shall
leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall
become one flesh.''
32. This is a great mystery, but I speak
concerning Christ and the church.
33. Nevertheless let each one of you
in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that
she respects her husband." |
| 6:5-9 |
5.
"Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters according
to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ;
6. not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers,
but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
7. with good will doing service, as to
the Lord, and not to men,
8. knowing that whatever good anyone
does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or
free.
9. And you, masters, do the same things
to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in
heaven, and there is no partiality with Him." |