Ephesians 4:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Whom

Ephesians 4:12

John 15:5

Fitly

The effectual

Ephesians 3:7

1 Thessalonians 2:13

Edifying

General references

Romans 12:4

Bible References

Whom

for the perfecting of the saints in the work of the ministry, unto the edifying of the body of the Christ

I AM the vine, ye are the branches: he that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.

Fitly

Hast thou not poured me out as milk and curdled me like cheese?

My body was not hid from thee, even though I was made in secret and brought together in the lowest parts of the earth.

For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also the Christ.

and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, fed and united by its joints and bonds, grows in the increase of God.

The effectual

of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the operation of his power.

For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, that having received from us the word to hear from God, ye received it not as the word of men, (but as it is in truth) the word of God, which effectually works in you that believe.

Edifying

but following the truth in charity, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:

according as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in charity;

that the Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye, being rooted and grounded in charity,

Now as concerning things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but charity edifies.

Charity suffers long and is benign; charity envies not; charity does nothing without due reason, is not puffed up,

Follow after charity and earnestly pursue spiritual gifts, but above all, that ye may prophesy.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by charity.

And this I pray that your charity may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all perception,

that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in charity and in all the riches of the fulfilled understanding to know the mystery of the God and Father and of the Christ;

remembering without ceasing the work of your faith and labour and charity and of waiting with the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,

And the Lord make you to multiply and make charity to abound among you and toward all men, even as it is with us toward you,

But as touching love among the brethren, ye need not that I write unto you, for ye yourselves have learned of God that ye are to show charity to one another.

We must thank God always for you, brethren, as is due because your faith grows exceedingly, and the charity of each and every one of you toward each other abounds,

Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeigned:

Having purified your souls in the obedience of the truth, by the Spirit, in unfeigned brotherly love, love one another with a pure heart fervently,

And we have known and believed the charity that God has in us. God is charity, and he that abides in charity abides in God, and God in him.

General references

For in the manner that we have many members in one body, nevertheless all the members do not have the same operation;