Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/masters/texts/ylt.lzh/EPH.LZH/EPH

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1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to
 the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ
 Jesus:
1:2 Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord
 Jesus Christ!
1:3 Blessed [is] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
 who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly
 places in Christ,
1:4 according as He did choose us in him before the foundation
 of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him,
 in love,
1:5 having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through
 Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His
 will,
1:6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did
 make us accepted in the beloved,
1:7 in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the
 remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His
 grace,
1:8 in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
1:9 having made known to us the secret of His will, according to
 His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself,
1:10 in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times,
 to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in
 the heavens, and the things upon the earth -- in him;
1:11 in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being
 foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all
 things is working according to the counsel of His will,
1:12 for our being to the praise of His glory, [even] those who
 did first hope in the Christ,
1:13 in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth -- the
 good news of your salvation -- in whom also having believed, ye
 were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,
1:14 which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption
 of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.
1:15 Because of this I also, having heard of your faith in the
 Lord Jesus, and the love to all the saints,
1:16 do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you
 in my prayers,
1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the
 glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
 recognition of him,
1:18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your
 knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches
 of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
1:19 and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us who are
 believing, according to the working of the power of His might,
1:20 which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of
 the dead, and did set [him] at His right hand in the heavenly
 [places],
1:21 far above all principality, and authority, and might, and
 lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also
 in the coming one;
1:22 and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him
 -- head over all things to the assembly,
1:23 which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the
 all in all,
2:1 Also you -- being dead in the trespasses and the sins,
2:2 in which once ye did walk according to the age of this
 world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of
 the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,
2:3 among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our
 flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and
 were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,
2:4 and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love
 with which He loved us,
2:5 even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live
 together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)
2:6 and did raise [us] up together, and did seat [us] together
 in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus,
2:7 that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the
 exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ
 Jesus,
2:8 for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and
 this not of you -- of God the gift,
2:9 not of works, that no one may boast;
2:10 for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to
 good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may
 walk.
2:11 Wherefore, remember, that ye [were] once the nations in the
 flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called
 Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,
2:12 that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been
 alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to
 the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God,
 in the world;
2:13 and now, in Christ Jesus, ye being once afar off became
 nigh in the blood of the Christ,
2:14 for he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle
 wall of the enclosure did break down,
2:15 the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in
 ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in
 himself into one new man, making peace,
2:16 and might reconcile both in one body to God through the
 cross, having slain the enmity in it,
2:17 and having come, he did proclaim good news -- peace to you
 -- the far-off and the nigh,
2:18 because through him we have the access -- we both -- in one
 Spirit unto the Father.
2:19 Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners,
 but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of
 God,
2:20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and
 prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner-[stone],
2:21 in whom all the building fitly framed together doth
 increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord,
2:22 in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of
 God in the Spirit.
3:1 For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you
 the nations,
3:2 if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of
 God that was given to me in regard to you,
3:3 that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according
 as I wrote before in few [words] --
3:4 in regard to which ye are able, reading [it], to understand
 my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,
3:5 which in other generations was not made known to the sons of
 men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets
 in the Spirit --
3:6 that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and
 partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,
3:7 of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the
 grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of
 His power;
3:8 to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was
 given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news --
 the untraceable riches of the Christ,
3:9 and to cause all to see what [is] the fellowship of the
 secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all
 things did create by Jesus Christ,
3:10 that there might be made known now to the principalities
 and the authorities in the heavenly [places], through the
 assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,
3:11 according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ
 Jesus our Lord,
3:12 in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence
 through the faith of him,
3:13 wherefore, I ask [you] not to faint in my tribulations for
 you, which is your glory.
3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord
 Jesus Christ,
3:15 of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is
 named,
3:16 that He may give to you, according to the riches of His
 glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in
 regard to the inner man,
3:17 that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts,
 in love having been rooted and founded,
3:18 that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the
 saints, what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and
 height,
3:19 to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the
 knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;
3:20 and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding
 abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is
 working in us,
3:21 to Him [is] the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to
 all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.
4:1 Call upon you, then, do I -- the prisoner of the Lord -- to
 walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,
4:2 with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering,
 forbearing one another in love,
4:3 being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond
 of the peace;
4:4 one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in
 one hope of your calling;
4:5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
4:6 one God and Father of all, who [is] over all, and through
 all, and in you all,
4:7 and to each one of you was given the grace, according to the
 measure of the gift of Christ,
4:8 wherefore, he saith, `Having gone up on high he led captive
 captivity, and gave gifts to men,' --
4:9 and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went
 down first to the lower parts of the earth?
4:10 he who went down is the same also who went up far above all
 the heavens, that He may fill all things --
4:11 and He gave some [as] apostles, and some [as] prophets, and
 some [as] proclaimers of good news, and some [as] shepherds and
 teachers,
4:12 unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of
 ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,
4:13 till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the
 recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure
 of stature of the fulness of the Christ,
4:14 that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by
 every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in
 craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,
4:15 and, being true in love, we may increase to Him [in] all
 things, who is the head -- the Christ;
4:16 from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and
 united, through the supply of every joint, according to the
 working in the measure of each single part, the increase of
 the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.
4:17 This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no
 more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of
 their mind,
4:18 being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from
 the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them,
 because of the hardness of their heart,
4:19 who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the
 lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in
 greediness;
4:20 and ye did not so learn the Christ,
4:21 if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth
 is in Jesus;
4:22 ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old
 man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,
4:23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
4:24 and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was
 created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.
4:25 Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with
 his neighbour, because we are members one of another;
4:26 be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your
 wrath,
4:27 neither give place to the devil;
4:28 whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him
 labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he
 may have to impart to him having need.
4:29 Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is
 good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to
 the hearers;
4:30 and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye
 were sealed to a day of redemption.
4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and
 evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,
4:32 and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving
 one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.
5:1 Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,
5:2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did
 give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an
 odour of a sweet smell,
5:3 and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it
 not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
5:4 also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, -- the
 things not fit -- but rather thanksgiving;
5:5 for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or
 covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in
 the reign of the Christ and God.
5:6 Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these
 things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the
 disobedience,
5:7 become not, then, partakers with them,
5:8 for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as
 children of light walk ye,
5:9 for the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness, and
 righteousness, and truth,
5:10 proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,
5:11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the
 darkness and rather even convict,
5:12 for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to
 speak of,
5:13 and all the things reproved by the light are manifested,
 for everything that is manifested is light;
5:14 wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping,
 and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon
 thee.'
5:15 See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
5:16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil;
5:17 because of this become not fools, but -- understanding what
 [is] the will of the Lord,
5:18 and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but
 be filled in the Spirit,
5:19 speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual
 songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
5:20 giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our
 Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;
5:21 subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.
5:22 The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to
 the Lord,
5:23 because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ
 [is] head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,
5:24 but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also
 [are] the wives to their own husbands in everything.
5:25 The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did
 love the assembly, and did give himself for it,
5:26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] with the
 bathing of the water in the saying,
5:27 that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory,
 not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it
 may be holy and unblemished;
5:28 so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own
 bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;
5:29 for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish
 and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,
5:30 because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of
 his bones;
5:31 `for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother,
 and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two
 -- for one flesh;'
5:32 this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and
 to the assembly;
5:33 but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own
 wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence
 the husband.
6:1 The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is
 righteous;
6:2 honour thy father and mother,
6:3 which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be
 well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the
 land.'
6:4 And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them
 in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.
6:5 The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with
 fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the
 Christ;
6:6 not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the
 Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,
6:7 with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,
6:8 having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this
 he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.
6:9 And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting
 threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in
 the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.
6:10 As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in
 the power of his might;
6:11 put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to
 stand against the wiles of the devil,
6:12 because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but
 with the principalities, with the authorities, with the
 world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual
 things of the evil in the heavenly places;
6:13 because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye
 may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things
 having done -- to stand.
6:14 Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth,
 and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,
6:15 and having the feet shod in the preparation of the
 good-news of the peace;
6:16 above all, having taken up the shield of the faith, in
 which ye shall be able all the fiery darts of the evil one to
 quench,
6:17 and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of
 the Spirit, which is the saying of God,
6:18 through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in
 the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all
 perseverance and supplication for all the saints --
6:19 and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the
 opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of
 the good news,
6:20 for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may
 speak freely -- as it behoveth me to speak.
6:21 And that ye may know -- ye also -- the things concerning me
 -- what I do, all things make known to you shall Tychicus, the
 beloved brother and faithful ministrant in the Lord,
6:22 whom I did send unto you for this very thing, that ye might
 know the things concerning us, and that he might comfort your
 hearts.
6:23 Peace to the brethren, and love, with faith, from God the
 Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!
6:24 The grace with all those loving our Lord Jesus Christ --
 undecayingly! Amen.