Ephesians 4:2

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Summary

Ephesians 4:2

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Lowliness

General references

Exodus 36:10

1 Corinthians 16:14

Bible References

Lowliness

Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth.

And go nobly on in your power, because you are good and true and without pride; and your right hand will be teaching you things of fear.

Though the Lord is high, he sees those who are low; and he has knowledge from far off of those who are lifted up.

He makes sport of the men of pride, but he gives grace to the gentle-hearted.

Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.

For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;

Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.

Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.

Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;

Doing the Lord's work without pride, through all the sorrow and troubles which came on me because of the evil designs of the Jews:

Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;

But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.

Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,

For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

But give honour to Christ in your hearts as your Lord; and be ready at any time when you are questioned about the hope which is in you, to give an answer in the fear of the Lord and without pride;

General references

And five curtains were joined together, and the other five curtains were joined together.

Let all you do be done in love.