Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;

New American Standard Bible

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love,

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, accepting one another in love,

International Standard Version

demonstrating all expressions of humility, gentleness, and patience, accepting one another in love.

A Conservative Version

with all humility and mildness, with longsuffering, forbearing each other in love.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

with all humility [forsaking self-righteousness], and gentleness [maintaining self-control], with patience, bearing with one another in [unselfish] love.

An Understandable Version

Live in a humble, gentle and patient way, showing tolerance [for the weaknesses] of one another out of love [for them].

Anderson New Testament

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love,

Common New Testament

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love,

Daniel Mace New Testament

with all humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another in love;

Darby Translation

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;

Godbey New Testament

with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in divine love;

Goodspeed New Testament

with perfect humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another lovingly.

John Wesley New Testament

With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering,

Julia Smith Translation

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

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, putting up with one another in love,

Modern King James verseion

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

in all humbleness of mind, and meekness, and long suffering, forbearing one another through love,

Moffatt New Testament

with perfect modesty and gentleness, showing forbearance to one another patiently, zealous in love

Montgomery New Testament

With all humility and gentleness and long-suffering forbear with one another in love;

NET Bible

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

New Heart English Bible

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Noyes New Testament

with all humility and meekness, with longsuffering; bearing with one another in love,

Sawyer New Testament

with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love,

The Emphasized Bible

With all lowliness and meekness, with long suffering, bearing one with another in love,

Thomas Haweis New Testament

with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love;

Twentieth Century New Testament

Always humble and gentle, patient, bearing lovingly with one another,

Webster

With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love;

Weymouth New Testament

with all lowliness of mind and unselfishness, and with patience, bearing with one another lovingly, and earnestly striving to maintain,

Williams New Testament

with perfect humility and gentleness, with patience, lovingly bearing with one another,

World English Bible

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Worrell New Testament

with all humility and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;

Worsley New Testament

and with long-suffering forbear one another in love,

Youngs Literal Translation

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
With
μετά 
meta 
with, after, among, hereafter , afterward , against, not tr,
Usage: 346

all
πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

ταπεινοφροσύνη 
Tapeinophrosune 
Usage: 7

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

πρᾳότης 
Praotes 
Usage: 9

with
μετά 
meta 
with, after, among, hereafter , afterward , against, not tr,
Usage: 346

μακροθυμία 
Makrothumia 
Usage: 14

ἀνέχομαι 
Anechomai 
Usage: 12

ἀλλήλων 
Allelon 
Usage: 85

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

Devotionals

Devotionals about Ephesians 4:2

Devotionals containing Ephesians 4:2

Images Ephesians 4:2

Prayers for Ephesians 4:2

Context Readings

Christians Should Live In Unity

1 I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you, 2 With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love; 3 Taking care to keep the harmony of the Spirit in the yoke of peace.


Cross References

Colossians 3:12-13

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;

Acts 20:19

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:

Numbers 12:3

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

Psalm 45:4

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.

Psalm 138:6

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

Proverbs 3:34

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

Proverbs 16:19

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

Isaiah 57:15

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.

Isaiah 61:1-3

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;

Zephaniah 2:3

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.

Zechariah 9:9

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.

Matthew 5:3-5

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

Matthew 11:29

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

Mark 9:19

And he said to them in answer, O generation without faith, how long will I have to be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come to me.

Romans 15:1

We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5

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

1 Corinthians 13:7

Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.

Galatians 5:22-23

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

Galatians 6:2

Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.

Ephesians 1:4

Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

1 Timothy 6:11

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

2 Timothy 2:25

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

James 1:21

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.

James 3:15-18

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

1 Peter 3:15

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;

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