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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ephesians 4 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ephesians/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ephesians/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Ephesians 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ephesians/3.htm" title="Ephesians 3">◄</a> Ephesians 4 <a href="../ephesians/5.htm" title="Ephesians 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/ephesians/4-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Unity in the Body<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../psalms/133.htm">Psalm 133:1–3</a>; <a href ="../1_corinthians/1.htm#10">1 Corinthians 1:10–17</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Therefore I, the imprisoned in the Lord, beseech you to walk Worthy of the calling which ye were called, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, bearing one another in love; <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Striving earnestly to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>One body, and one Spirit, as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>One Lord, one faith, one immersion, <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>One God and Father of all, who over all, and through all, and in you all.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And to each one of us was grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Wherefore he says, Having ascended into height, he made captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>(And so having ascended, what is it except that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He having descended is the same having ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill up all things.) <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And truly he gave the sent; and the prophets; and the bearers of good tidings; and the shepherds, and the teachers; <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For the adjusting of the holy, for the work of the service, for the building up of the body of Christ: <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Until we all arrive to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the perfect man, to the measure of age of the filling up of Christ. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit; <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And speaking the truth in love, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ: <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>From whom all the body fitted together and joined together by every touch of the expenditure, according to the energy in measure of one of each part, makes the increase of the body to the building up of itself in love.<p> <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">New Life in Christ <br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../colossians/3.htm">Colossians 3:1–17</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind, <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart; <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Who no longer having had feeling delivered themselves to licentiousness, to the work of all uncleanness in overreaching. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And ye have not so learned Christ; <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>If ye heard him, and were taught in him, as is the truth in Jesus: <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit; <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And to be renewed in the spirit of your mind; <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And to put on the new man, created according to God in justice and sanctity of truth.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Wherefore falsehood ye having put away, speak the truth each with his neighbor: for ye are members one of another. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your fit of anger: <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Neither give place to the accuser. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>He stealing let him steal no more: and rather let him be wearied from fatigue, working good with the hands, that he have to impart to him having need. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And grieve ye not the Holy Spirit of God in which ye were sealed to the day of redemption. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness: <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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