Sha'ul�s Letter to the Ephesians, Chapter 4
{4:1} I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk
worthily of the calling with which you were called, {4:2} with all
lowliness and humility, with longsuffering, bearing with one another
in love; {4:3} being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond
of shalom. {4:4} There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also
were called in one hope of your calling; {4:5} one Lord, one faith,
one immersion, {4:6} one God and Father of all, who is over all, and
through all, and in us all. {4:7} But to each one of us was the grace
given according to the measure of the gift of Messiah. {4:8} Therefore
he says, "When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave
gifts to men." {4:9} Now this, "He ascended," what is it but that he
also first descended into the lower parts of the [1>]eretz[<1]? {4:10}
He who descended is the same also who ascended far above all the
heavens, that he might fill all things. {4:11} He gave some to be
apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some,
shepherds and teachers; {4:12} for the perfecting of the holy ones, to
the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Messiah; {4:13}
until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of
the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of
the fullness of Messiah; {4:14} that we may no longer be children,
tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine,
by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
{4:15} but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into
him, who is the head, Messiah; {4:16} from whom all the body, being
fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies,
according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the
body increase to the building up of itself in love.
{4:17} This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no
longer walk as the rest of the Goyim also walk, in the futility of
their mind, {4:18} being darkened in their understanding, alienated
from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them,
because of the hardening of their hearts; {4:19} who having become
callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with
greediness. {4:20} But you did not learn Messiah that way; {4:21} if
indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in
Yeshua: {4:22} that you put away, as concerning your former way of
life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
{4:23} and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, {4:24} and
put on the new man, that like God has been created in righteousness
and holiness of truth.
{4:25} Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with
his neighbor. For we are members one of another. {4:26} "Be angry, and
don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath, {4:27} neither
give place to the devil. {4:28} Let him who stole steal no more; but
rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good,
that he may have something to give to him who has need. {4:29} Let no
corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for
building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who
hear. {4:30} Don't grieve the [2>]Ruach HaKodesh[<2] of God, in whom
you were sealed to the day of redemption. {4:31} Let all bitterness,
wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all
malice. {4:32} And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving
each other, just as God also in Messiah forgave you.
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Footnotes:
[1] {4:9} earth
[2] {4:30} Holy Spirit
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