Thematic Bible
Ephesians 4:1 (show verse)
As the Lord's prisoner, then, I beg of you to live a life worthy of your calling,
Ephesians 4:2 (show verse)
with perfect modesty and gentleness, showing forbearance to one another patiently, zealous in love
Ephesians 4:3 (show verse)
to preserve the unity of the Spirit by binding peace upon yourselves.
Ephesians 4:4 (show verse)
For there is one Body and one Spirit ??as you were called for the one hope that belongs to your call ??5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Ephesians 4:5 (show verse)
Ephesians 4:6 (show verse)
one God and Father of all, who is over us all, who pervades us all, who is within us all.
Ephesians 4:7 (show verse)
But each one of us is granted his own grace, as determined by the full measure of Christ's gift.
Ephesians 4:8 (show verse)
Thus it is said, When he ascended on high he led a host captive and granted gifts to men.
Ephesians 4:9 (show verse)
What does he ascended mean, except that he first descended to the nether regions of the earth?
Ephesians 4:10 (show verse)
He who descended is he who ascended above all the heavens to fill the universe;
Ephesians 4:11 (show verse)
he granted some men to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to shepherd and teach,
Ephesians 4:12 (show verse)
for the equipment of the saints, for the business of the ministry, for the upbuilding of the Body of Christ,
Ephesians 4:13 (show verse)
till we should all attain the unity of the faith and knowledge of God's Son, reaching maturity, reaching the full measure of development which belongs to the fulness of Christ ??14 instead of remaining immature, blown from our course and swayed by every passing wind of doctrine, by the adroitness of men who are dexterous in devising error;
Ephesians 4:14 (show verse)
Ephesians 4:15 (show verse)
we are to hold by the truth, and by our love to grow up wholly into Him. For He, Christ, is the head, and under him,
Ephesians 4:16 (show verse)
as the entire Body is welded together and compacted by every joint with which it is supplied, the due activity of each part enables the Body to grow and build itself up in love.
Ephesians 4:17 (show verse)
Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,
Ephesians 4:18 (show verse)
their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them ??19 men who have recklessly abandoned themselves to sensuality, with a lust for the business of impurity in every shape and form.
Ephesians 4:19 (show verse)
Ephesians 4:20 (show verse)
That is not how you have understood the meaning of Christ
Ephesians 4:21 (show verse)
(for it is Christ whom you have been taught, it is in Christ that you have been instructed ??the real Christ who is in Jesus);
Ephesians 4:22 (show verse)
you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,
Ephesians 4:23 (show verse)
and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
Ephesians 4:24 (show verse)
putting on the new nature, that divine pattern which has been created in the upright and pious character of the Truth.
Ephesians 4:25 (show verse)
Lay aside falsehood, then, let each tell his neighbour the truth, for we are members one of another.
Ephesians 4:26 (show verse)
Be angry but do not sin; never let the sun set upon your exasperation,
Ephesians 4:27 (show verse)
give the devil no chance.
Ephesians 4:28 (show verse)
Let the thief steal no more; rather let him work and put his hands to an honest task, so as to have something to contribute to the needy.
Ephesians 4:29 (show verse)
Let no bad word pass your lips, but only such speech as is good for edification, as occasion may require, words that are gracious and a means of grace to those who hear them.
Ephesians 4:30 (show verse)
And do not vex God's holy Spirit, by whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.
Ephesians 4:31 (show verse)
Drop all bitter feeling and passion and anger and clamouring and insults, together with all malice;
Ephesians 4:32 (show verse)
be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.