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

that the saints might have all things necessary to work and minister withal, to the edifying of the body of Christ,

I am the vine, and ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me can ye do nothing.

Fitly

Hast thou not turned me, as it were milk: and turned me to cruddes like cheese?

My bones are not hid from thee, though I be made secretly, and fashioned beneath in the earth.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of one body though they be many, yet are but one body: even so is Christ.

and holdeth not the head: whereof all the body by joints and couples receiveth nourishment, and is knit together, and increaseth with the increasing that cometh of God.

The effectual

whereof I am made a minister, by the gift of the grace of God given unto me, through the working of his power.

For this cause thank we God without ceasing, because that when ye received of us the word, wherewith God was preached, ye received it not as the word of man: but even as it was, indeed, the word of God; which worketh in you that believe.

Edifying

But let us follow the truth in love, and in all things grow in him which is the head, that is to say Christ,

according as he had chosen us in him through love, before the foundation of the world was laid, that we should be saints, and without blame before him, through love.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

To speak of things dedicated unto idols, we are sure that we all have knowledge. Knowledge maketh a man swell: but love edifieth.

Love suffereth long, and is courteous. Love envieth not. Love doth not forwardly, swelleth not,

Labour for love, and covet spiritual gifts: and most chiefly for to prophesy.

For in Jesus Christ, neither is circumcision anything worth, neither yet uncircumcision: but faith, which by love is mighty in operation.

And this I pray, that your love may increase more and more in knowledge, and in all feeling,

that their hearts might be comforted and knit together in love, and in all riches of full understanding, for to know the mystery of God the father and of Christ:

without ceasing, and call to remembrance your work in the faith, and labour in love and perseverance in the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God our father:

and the Lord increase you, and make you flow over in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you,

But as touching brotherly love, ye need not that I write unto you. For ye are taught of God to love one another.

We are bound to thank God always for you brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and every one of you swimmeth in love toward another between yourselves,

For the end of the commandment is love that cometh of a pure heart and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

And forasmuch as ye have purified your souls through the spirit, in obeying the truth for to love brotherly without feigning, see that ye love one another with a pure heart, fervently:

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God in him.

General references

As we have many members in one body, and all members have not one office: