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<span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>one Lord, one faith, one baptism; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Therefore <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>it says, <p class="indent2">“WHEN HE ASCENDED ON HIGH, <p class="indent2">HE LED CAPTIVE A HOST OF CAPTIVES, <p class="indent2"><i>And</i> HE GAVE GIFTS TO MEN.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>(Now this <i>expression</i>, “He ascended,” what <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>does it mean except that He also <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>descended into the lower parts of the earth? <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And He Himself gave some <i>as</i> apostles, and some <i>as</i> prophets, and some <i>as</i> evangelists, and some <i>as</i> pastors and teachers, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>for the equipping of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>full knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>which belongs to the fullness of Christ, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>so that we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>in deceitful scheming, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>but <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>speaking the truth in love, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>we are to grow up in all <i>aspects</i> into Him who is the head, <i>that is</i> Christ, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>from whom the whole body, being joined and held together <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>by what every joint supplies, according to the properly measured working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. <p class="hdg">Put On the New Man</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>being darkened in their mind, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><i>And</i> they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But you did not learn <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Christ in this way— <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>if indeed you heard Him and were taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus— <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>to lay aside, in reference to your former conduct, the old man, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>and to put on the new man, which <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>in <i>the likeness of</i> God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Therefore, laying aside falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE <i>of you</i> WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are members of one another. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>BE ANGRY, AND <i>yet</i> DO NOT SIN; do not let the sun go down on your anger, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and do not give the devil <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>an opportunity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>He who steals must steal no longer, but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have <i>something</i> to share with <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>one who has need. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Let no <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such <i>a word</i> as is good for building up <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>what is needed, so that it will give grace to those who hear. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and shouting and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Instead, be kind to one another, tender-hearted, graciously forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has graciously forgiven <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>you.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i>He</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> Lit <i>is it except</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> One early ms <i>had first descended</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Or <i>holy ones</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i>true knowledge</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Lit <i>of the fullness</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Lit <i>with regard to the scheming of deceit</i><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i>holding to</i>, <i>being truthful in</i><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i>let us grow up</i><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Lit <i>through every joint of the supply</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Or <i>greedy for the practice of every kind of impurity</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Messiah<br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Lit <i>for you</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> Lit <i>according to God</i><br><span class="fnverse">27</span> Lit <i>a place</i><br><span class="fnverse">28</span> Lit <i>the one</i><br><span class="fnverse">29</span> Lit <i>rotten</i><br><span class="fnverse">29</span> Or <i>according to the need</i><br><span class="fnverse">30</span> Lit <i>in</i><br><span class="fnverse">32</span> Two early mss <i>us</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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