EPHESIANS 4
Ephesians:4:1: I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
prisoner = desmios {des’-mee-os} from desmon {des-mon’} or desmos des-mos neuter and masculine respectively; a band, i.e. ligament (of the body) or shackle (of a prisoner); figuratively, an impediment or disability:–band, bond, chain, string; a captive (as bound):–in bonds, prisoner. See Ephesians 3:1
beseech = parakaleo {par-ak-al-eh’-o}; to call near, i.e. invite, invoke(by imploration, hortation or consolation):–beseech, call for, (be of good) comfort,desire, (give) exhort(-ation), intreat, pray.
Ephesians:6:22: Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and [that] he might comfort your hearts.
Walk = peripateo {per-ee-pat-eh’-o}; to tread all around, i.e. walk at large (especially as proof of ability); figuratively, to live, deport oneself, follow (as a companion or votary):–go, be occupied with, walk (about). See Ephesians 2:2
worthy = axios {ax-ee’-oce} adverb from axios {ax’-ee-os}; deserving, comparable or suitable (as if drawing praise):–due reward, meet, (un-)worthy; appropriately:–as becometh, after a godly sort, worthily(-thy).
Romans:16:2: That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
Colossians:1:10: That ye might walk worthy of the unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
1Thessalonians:2:12: That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
3 John:1:6: Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:
vocation = klesis {klay’-sis} from a shorter form of kaleo {kal-eh’-o}; to “call” (properly, aloud, but used in a variety of applications, directly or otherwise):–bid, call (forth), (whose, whose sur-)name (was (called)); an invitation (figuratively):–calling.
Romans:11:29: For the gifts and calling of God [are] without repentance.
1Corinthians:7:20: Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
Philippians:3:14: I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
2 Peter:1:10: Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure; for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall
Ephesians:4:4: [There is] one body, and one Spirit , even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
called kaleo {kal-eh’-o}; to “call” (properly, aloud, but used in a variety of applications, directly or otherwise):–bid, call (forth), (whose, whose sur-)name (was (called)).
Ephesians:4:4: [There is] one body, and one Spirit , even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
Each believer is called to a unique calling, vocation, job, in the body of Christ. Each of those callings are an important part of the whole. Without one, the body will not function to its fullest. Therefore it is very important to find out what calling you have. How do you find it out? Spend time in God’s word and prayer. He will let you know what you are called to. And then walk worthy of that calling, no matter how small it seems.
Ephesians:4:2: With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Colossians:3:12-14 12: Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13: Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 14: And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Lowliness= tapeinophrosune {tap-i-nof-ros-oo’-nay} from a compound; humiliation of mind, i.e. modesty:–humbleness of mind, humility (of mind, loneliness (of mind).
Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Colossians 2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
meekness= praiotes {prah-ot’-ace} from praios {prah’-os}, used in certain parts; gentle, i.e. humble:–meek from praus {prah-ooce’} apparently a primary word; mild, i.e. (by implication) humble:–meek.; gentleness, by implication, humility:–meekness.
2 Corinthians 10:1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
2 Timothy 2:25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
Titus 3:2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
Longsuffering= makrothumia {mak-roth-oo-mee’-ah} from compound of makros {mak-ros’}; long (in place (distant) or time (neuter plural)):–far, long. ; longanimity, i.e. (objectively) forbearance or (subjectively) fortitude:–longsuffering, patience.
James 5:10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
Forbearing= anechomai {an-ekh’-om-ahee}; to hold oneself up against, i.e. (figuratively) put up with:–bear with, endure, forbear, suffer.
2 Corinthians:11:19-20 19: For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 20: For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
2 Thessalonians:1:4: So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
2 Timothy:4:3: For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Hebrews:13:22: And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
love = agape {ag-ah’-pay} from agapao {ag-ap-ah’-o} (perhaps from agan (much); to love (in a social or moral sense):–(be-)love(-ed).); love, i.e. affection or benevolence; specially (plural) a love-feast:–(feast of) charity(-ably), dear, love. See Ephesians 1:4
Our walk, the fulfilling of our calling is to be in humbleness and patience. We are not to put ourselves above another because our walk looks more important. All callings are important, and we must be humble and teachable.
Ephesians:4:3: Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Endeavouring =spoudazo {spoo-dad’-zo} from spoude {spoo-day’}; “speed”, i.e. (by implication) despatch,eagerness, earnestness:–business, (earnest) care(-fulness), diligence, forwardness, haste.; to use speed, i.e. to make effort, be prompt or earnest:–do (give) diligence, be diligent (forward), endeavour, labour, study.
1 Thessalonians:2:17: But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
2 Timothy:2:15: Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Timothy:4:9: Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:
2 Timothy:4:21a: Do thy diligence to come before winter.
Hebrews:4:11: Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
2 Peter:1:10: Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2 Peter:1:15: Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
2 Peter:3:14: Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Unity = henotes {hen-ot-ace’} from heis {hice} (including the neuter (etc.) hen); a primary numeral; one:–a(-n, -ny, certain), + abundantly, man, one (another), only, other, some.; oneness, i.e. (figuratively) unanimity:–unity. Only found here and in Ephesians 4:13
bond = sundesmos {soon’-des-mos}; a joint tie, i.e. ligament, (figuratively) uniting principle, control:–band, bond.
Colossians:2:19: And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
Colossians:3:14: And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
peace = eirene {i-ray’-nay} probably from a primary verb eiro (to join); peace (literally or figuratively); by implication, prosperity:–one, peace, quietness, rest, + set at one again. See Ephesians 1:2
Ephesians:4:4: There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
one Body = soma {so’-mah} from sozo {sode’-zo} from a primary sos (contraction for obsolete saos, “safe”); to save, i.e. deliver or protect (literally or figuratively):–heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be (make) whole.; the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively:–bodily, body, slave.
Romans:12:4-5 4: For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: 5: So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
1 Corinthians:6:16: What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians:10:17: For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
1 Corinthians:12:12-13 12: For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. 13: For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
1 Corinthians:12:20: But now are they many members, yet but one body.
Ephesians:2:16: And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
Colossians:3:15: And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
one spirit
1 Corinthians:12:13: For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Ephesians:2:18: For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
called See verse one.
one Hope = elpis {el-pece’} from a primary elpo (to anticipate, usually with pleasure); expectation (abstractly or concretely) or confidence:–faith, hope.
calling = klesis {klay’-sis} from a shorter form of kaleo {kal-eh’-o}; to “call” (properly, aloud, but used in a variety of applications, directly or otherwise):–bid, call (forth), (whose, whose sur-)name (was (called)). ; an invitation (figuratively):– calling. See Ephesians 1:18
Ephesians:4:5: One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
one Lord
Mark:12:29: And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
1 Corinthians:8:6: But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
one faith = pistis {pis’-tis} from peitho {pi’-tho} (a primary verb; to convince (by argument, true or false); by analogy, to pacify or conciliate (by other fair means); reflexively or passively, to assent (to evidence or authority), to rely (by inward certainty):–agree, assure, believe, have confidence, be (wax) conflent, make friend, obey, persuade, trust, yield.); persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly, constancy in such profession; by extension, the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself:–assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity.
one baptism = baptisma {bap’-tis-mah} from baptizo {bap-tid’-zo} from a derivative of bapto {bap’-to} a primary verb; to whelm, i.e. cover wholly with a fluid; in the NewTestament only in a qualified or special sense, i.e. (literally) to moisten (a part of one’sperson), or (by implication) to stain (as with dye):–dip.; to immerse, submerge; to make whelmed (i.e. fully wet); used only (in the New Testament) of ceremonial ablution,especially (technically) of the ordinance of Christian baptism:–Baptist, baptize, wash.; baptism (technically or figuratively):–baptism.
Ephesians:4:6: One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
One God and Father
1 Corinthians:8:6: But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
above all
John:3:31: He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
Ephesians:1:21: Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
Ephesians:3:20: Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Ephesians:4:10: He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
through all and in all
1 Corinthians:12:6: And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
1 Corinthians:14:33: For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
1 Corinthians:15:28: And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
Ephesians:1:8: Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
Ephesians:1:23: Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Colossians:1:18: And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Colossians:3:11: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
2 Thessalonians:1:10: When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
1 Peter:4:11: If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus
Ephesians:4:7: But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
grace = charis {khar’-ece} from chairo ( {khah’-ee-Romans} a primary verb; to be “cheer”ful, i.e. calmly happy or well-off; impersonally, especially as salutation (on meeting or parting), be well:–farewell, be glad, God speed, greeting, hall, joy(- fully), rejoice.); graciousness (as gratifying), of manner or act (abstract or concrete; literal, figurative or spiritual; especially the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life; including gratitude):–acceptable, benefit, favour, gift, grace(- ious), joy, liberality, pleasure, thank(-s, -worthy). See Ephesians 1:2
measure = metron {met’-ron}; a measure (“metre”), literally or figuratively; by implication, a limited portion (degree):– measure.
Also in verse 13 and 16
Luke:6:38: Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Romans:12:3: For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
gift = doron {do’-ron a present; specially, a sacrifice:–gift, offering. See Ephesians 2:8
Ephesians:4:8: Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
Ascended = anabaino {an-ab-ah’-ee-no} ; to go up (literally or figuratively):–arise, ascend (up), climb (go, grow, rise, spring) up, come (up).
High = hupsos {hoop’-sos}; elevation, i.e. (abstractly)altitude, (specially), the sky, or (figuratively) dignity:–be exalted, height, (on) high.
Led captivity – aichmaloteuo {aheekh-mal-o-tew’-o} from aichmalotos {aheekh-mal-o-tos’} from aichme (a spear); properly, a prisoner of war, i.e. (genitive case) a captive:–captive.; to capture:–lead captive.
Captive = aichmalosia {aheekh-mal-o-See’-ah} from aichmalotos; captivity:–captivity.
gifts see Ephesians 4:7
Ephesians:4:9: (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
Ascended = see Ephesians 4:8
Descended = katabaino {kat-ab-ah’-ee-no}; to descend (literally or figuratively):–come (get, go, step) down, fall (down).
Romans:10:6-7 6: But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) 7: Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
First = proton {pro’-ton} ; firstly (in time, place, order, or importance):–before, at the beginning, chiefly (at, at the) first (of all).
lower = katoteros {kat-o’-ter-os} comparative from kato kat’-o; adverb; downwards:–beneath, bottom, down, under. ; inferior (locally, of Hades):– lower. Only used here in the New Testament
parts = meros {mer’-os} from an obsolete but more primary form of meiromai (to get as a section or allotment); a division or share (literally or figuratively, in a wide application):–behalf, course, coast, craft, particular (+ -ly), part (+ -ly), piece, portion, respect, side,some sort(-what).
earth = ge {ghay} contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application):–country, earth(-ly), ground, land, world. See Ephesians 1:10
Ephesians:4:10: He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
descended = See Ephesians 4:9
ascended = See Ephesians 4:8
Far above = huperano {hoop-er-an’-o}; above upward, i.e. greatly higher (in place or rank):–far above, over.
Heaven = ouranos {oo-ran-os’} perhaps from the same as 3735 (through the idea of elevation); the sky; by extension, heaven (as the abode of God); by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel (Christianity):–air, heaven(-ly), sky.
might fill = pleroo {play-Romans’-o}; to make replete, i.e. (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow), or (figuratively) to furnish (or imbue, diffuse, influence), satisfy, execute (an office), finish (a period or task), verify (or coincide with a prediction), etc.:–accomplish, X after, (be) complete, end, expire, fill (up), fulfil, (be, make) full (come),fully preach, perfect, supply.
Ephesians:4:11: And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
gave = didomi {did’-o-mee} a prolonged form of a primary verb (which is used as an alternative in most of the tenses); to give (used in a very wide application, properly, or by implication, literally or figuratively; greatly modified by the connection):–adventure, bestow, bring forth, commit, deliver (up), give, grant, hinder, make, minister, number, offer, have power, put, receive, set, shew, smite (+ with the hand), strike (+ with the palm of the hand), suffer, take, utter, yield.
apostle = apostolos {ap-os’-tol-os} from apostello ( {ap-os-tel’-lo} set apart, i.e. (by implication) to send out (properly, on a mission) literally or figuratively:–put in, send (away, forth, out), set (at liberty).) a delegate; specially, an ambassador of the Gospel; officially a commissioner of Christ (“apostle”) (with miraculous powers):– apostle, messenger, he that is sent.
Luke:6:13: And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;
Prophets = prophetes {prof-ay’-tace}; a foreteller (“prophet”); by analogy, an inspired speaker; by extension, a poet:–prophet. See Ephesians 2:20
evangelists = euaggelistes {yoo-ang-ghel-is-tace’} from euaggelizo {yoo-ang-ghel-id’-zo}; to announce good news (“evangelize”) especially the gospel:–declare, bring (declare, show) glad (good) tidings,; a preacher of the gospel:–evangelist.
Acts:21:8: And the next day we that were of Paul’s company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him.
2 Timothy:4:5: But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Pastors = poimen {poy-mane’} of uncertain affinity; a shepherd (literally or figuratively):–
shepherd, pastor. Only translated pastor here…all other times it is used as shepherd, and Jesus.
John:10:1-5 1: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2: But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3: To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. 4: And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5: And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
John:10:11-16 11: I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. 12: But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. 13: The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. 14: I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. 15: As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16: And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
Hebrews:13:20: Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
1 Peter:2:25: For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Teachers = didaskalos {did-as’-kal-os} from didasko {did-as’-ko} a prolonged (causative) form of a primary verb dao (to learn); to teach (in the same broad application):–teach.; an instructor (genitive case or specially):–doctor, master, teacher.
John:3:2: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Acts:13:1: Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Romans:2:20: An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
1 Corinthians:12:28-29 28: And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. 29: Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
1 Timothy:1:7: Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
1 Timothy:2:7: Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
2 Timothy:1:11: Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
2 Timothy:4:3: For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Titus:2:3: The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Hebrews:5:12: For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
2 Peter:2:1: But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Ephesians:4:12: For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
perfecting = katartismos {kat-ar-tis-mos’} from katartizo {kat-ar-tid’-zo}; to complete thoroughly, i.e. repair (literally or figuratively) or adjust:–fit, frame, mend, (make) perfect(-ly join together), prepare, restore. ; complete furnishing (objectively):–perfecting. Only found here.
saints = hagios {hag’-ee-os} from hagos (an awful thing); sacred (physically, pure, morally blameless or religious, ceremonially, consecrated):–(most) holy (one, thing), saint.
Work = ergon {er’-gon} from a primary (but obsolete) ergo (to work); toil (as an effort or occupation); by implication, an act:–deed, doing, labour, work. See Ephesians 2:9
ministry = diakonia {dee-ak-on-ee’-ah} from diakonos {dee-ak’-on-os} probably from an obsolete diako (to run on errands;); an attendant, i.e. (genitive case) a waiter (at table or in other menial duties); specially, a Christian teacher and pastor (technically, a deacon or deaconess):–
deacon, minister, servant. ; attendance (as a servant, etc.); figuratively (eleemosynary) aid, (official) service (especially of the Christian teacher, or technically of the diaconate):–(ad-)minister(-ing, -tration, -try), office, relief, service(-ing).
Romans:12:7: Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
1 Corinthians:12:4-6 4: Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5: And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. 6: And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
1 Corinthians:16:15: I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
2 Corinthians:5:18: And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
2 Timothy:4:5: But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Edifying =oikodome {oy-kod-om-ay’} feminine (abstract) ; architecture, i.e. (concretely) a structure; figuratively, confirmation:–building, edify(-ication, -ing). See Ephesians 2:21
Body = soma {so’-mah} from sozo {sode’-zo} from a primary sos (contraction for obsolete saos, “safe”); to save, i.e. deliver or protect (literally or figuratively):–heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be (make) whole.; the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively:–bodily, body, slave. See Ephesians 1:23
Ephesians:4:13: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
come = katantao {kat-an-tah’-o}; to meet against, i.e. arrive at (literally or figuratively):–attain, come.
Unity See Ephesians 4:3
faith = pistis {pis’-tis} from peitho {pi’-tho} (a primary verb; to convince (by argument, true or false); by analogy, to pacify or conciliate (by other fair means); reflexively or passively, to assent (to evidence or authority), to rely (by inward certainty):–agree, assure, believe, have confidence, be (wax) conflent, make friend, obey, persuade, trust, yield.); persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly, constancy in such profession; by extension, the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself:–assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity.
knowledge = epignosis {ep-ig’-no-sis} from epiginosko {ep-ig-in-oce’-ko} to know upon some mark, i.e. recognize; by implication, to become fully acquainted with, to acknowledge:–(ac-, have, take)know(-ledge, well), perceive. recognition, i.e. (by implication) full discernment, acknowledgement:–(ac-)knowledge(-ing, – ment). See Ephesians 1:17
perfect =teleios {tel’-i-os} from telos {tel’-os} from a primary tello (to set out for a definite point or goal); properly, the point aimed at as a limit, i.e. (by implication) the conclusion of an act or state (termination (literally, figuratively or indefinitely), result (immediate, ultimate or prophetic), purpose); specially, an impost or levy (as paid):–+ continual, custom, end(-ing), finally, uttermost. ; complete (in various applications of labor, growth, mental and moral character, etc.); neuter (as noun) completeness:–of full age, man, perfect.
Romans:12:2: And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
1 Corinthians 2:6: Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
1 Corinthians:13:10: But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
Galatians:3:3: Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Philippians:3:15: Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Colossians:1:28: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Colossians:4:12: Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
Hebrews:9:11: But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
James:1:25: But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
James:3:2: For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
1 John:4:18: There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Man = aner {an’-ayr} a primary word; a man (properly as an individual male):–fellow, husband, man, sir.
Measure = See Ephesian 4:7
stature = helikia {hay-lik-ee’-ah} from helix (a comrade, i.e. one of the same age) ; maturity (in years or size):–age, stature.
Matthew:6:27: Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Luke:2:52: And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
John:9:21: But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.
fulness = pleroma {play’-ro-mah}; repletion or completion, i.e. (subjectively) what fills (as contents, supplement, copiousness, multitude), or (objectively) what is filled (as container, performance, period):–which is put in to fill up, piece that filled up, fulfilling, full, fulness.
Ephesians:4:14: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
henceforth not in Greek
children = nepios {nay’-pee-os}; not speaking, i.e. an infant (minor); figuratively, a simple-minded person, an immature Christian:–babe, child (+ -ish).
Matthew:11:25: At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
Matthew:21:16: And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
Luke:10:21: In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Romans:2:20: An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
1 Corinthians:13:11: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Galatians:4:1: Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
Galatians:4:3: Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Hebrews:5:13: For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Tossed to and fro = kludonizomai {kloo-do-nid’-zom-ahee} middle voice from kludon {kloo’-dohn} from kluzo (to billow or dash over); a surge of the sea (literally or figuratively):–raging, wave.; to surge, i.e. (figuratively) to fluctuate:–toss to and fro. Only used here.
carried about with = periphero {per-ee-fer’-o}; to convey around, i.e. transport hither and thither:–bear (carry) about.
Mark:6:55: And ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.
2 Corinthians:4:10: Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
Hebrews:13:9: Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
Jude:1:12: These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
wind = anemos {an’-em-os} from aemi (to breathe unconsciously, i.e. respire; by analogy, to blow); wind; (plural) by implication, (the four) quarters (of the earth):–wind.
Doctrine = didaskalia {did-as-kal-ee’-ah} from didaskalos {did-as’-kal-os} from didasko {did-as’-ko} a prolonged (causative) form of a primary verb dao (to learn); to teach (in the same broad application):–teach.; an instructor (genitive case or specially):–doctor, master, teacher. ; instruction (the function or the information):–doctrine, learning, teaching.
Matthew:15:9: But in vain they do worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.
Mark:7:7: Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.
Colossians:2:22: Which all are to perish with the using) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
1 Timothy:4:1: Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
1 Timothy:6:1: Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and [his] doctrine be not blasphemed.
1 Timothy:6:3: If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
Titus:1:9: Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Titus:2:7: In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine [shewing] uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
Titus:2:10: Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Sleight = kubeia {koo-bi’-ah} from kubos (a “cube”, i.e. die for playing); gambling, i.e.(figuratively) artifice or fraud:–sleight. Only used here
men = anthropos {anth’-ro-pos} from aner {an’-ayr}; a man (properly as an individual male):–fellow, husband, man, sir. and ops (the countenance); man-faced, i.e. a human being:–certain, man. Also in Ephesians 5:31
cunning craftiness = panourgia {pan-oorg-ee’-ah} from panougos {pan-oor’-gos}; all-working, i.e. adroit (shrewd):–crafty.; adroitness, i.e. (in a bad sense) trickery or sophistry:–(cunning) craftiness, subtilty.
Luke:20:22-23 22: Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no? 23: But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?
1 Corinthians:3:19: For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
2 Corinthians:4:2: But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians:11:3: But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
lie in wait = methodeia {meth-od-i’-ah}; travelling over, i.e. travesty (trickery):–wile, lie in wait.
Ephesians:6:11: Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil
deceive = plane {plan’-ay} feminine of planos {plan’-os} of uncertain affinity; roving (as a tramp), i.e. (by implication) an impostor or misleader; –deceiver, seducing. (as abstractly); objectively, fraudulence; subjectively, a straying from orthodoxy or piety:–deceit, to deceive, delusion, error.
Romans:1:27: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
1 Thessalonians:2:3: For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
2 Thessalonians:2:11: And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
James:5:20: Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
2 Peter:2:18: For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
2 Peter:3:17: Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
1 John:4:6: We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Jude:1:11: Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Ephesians:4:15: But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
speaking the truth = aletheuo {al-ayth-yoo’-o} from alethes {al-ay-thace’}; true (as not concealing):–true, truly, truth.; to be true (in doctrine and profession):–speak (tell) the truth.
Galatians 4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Love = agape {ag-ah’-pay} from agapao {ag-ap-ah’-o} (perhaps from agan (much); to love (in a social or moral sense):–(be-)love(-ed). ); love, i.e. affection or benevolence; specially (plural) a love-feast:–(feast of) charity(-ably), dear, love. See Ephesians 1:15
grow up = auzano {owx-an’-o} a prolonged form of a primary verb; to grow (“wax”), i.e. enlarge (literal or figurative, active or passive):–grow (up), (give the) increase. See Ephesians 2:21
Head = kephale {kef-al-ay’} from the primary kapto (in the sense of seizing); the head (as the part most readily taken hold of), literally or figuratively:–head.
Ephesians:4:16: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
body = soma {so’-mah} from sozo {sode’-zo} from a primary sos (contraction for obsolete saos, “safe”); to save, i.e. deliver or protect (literally or figuratively):–heal, preserve, save (self), do well,
be (make) whole.; the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively:–bodily, body, slave.
fitly framed together = sunarmologeo {soon-ar-mol-og-eh’-o} ; to render close-jointed together, i.e. organize compactly:–be fitly framed (joined) together. Ephesians 2:21
compacted = sumbibazo {soom-bib-ad’-zo} from sun {soon} a primary preposition denoting union; with or together and bibazo (to force; causative (by reduplication) of the base of 939); to drive together, i.e. unite (in association or affection), (mentally) to infer, show, teach:–compact, assuredly gather, intrust, knit together, prove.
1 Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.
Colossians 2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
Colossians 2:19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
Joint = haphe {haf-ay’} from haptomai {hap’-tom-ahee}; properly, to attach oneself to, i.e. to touch (in many implied relations):–touch. ; probably a ligament (as fastening):–joint. only here and Colossians 2:19
supplieth = epichoregia {ep-ee-khor-ayg-ee’-ah} from epichoregeo {ep-ee-khor-ayg-eh’-o} ; to furnish besides,i.e. fully supply, (figuratively) aid or contribute:–add, minister (nourishment, unto).; contribution:–supply.
Philippians 1:19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ
effectual working = energeia {en-erg’-i-ah} from energes {en-er-gace’}; active, operative:–effectual, powerful. ; efficiency (“energy”):–operation, strong, (effectual) working. See Ephesians 1:19
measure =metron {met’-ron}; a measure (“metre”), literally or figuratively; by implication, a limited portion (degree):– measure. See Ephesians 4:7
part = heis {hice} (including the neuter (etc.) hen); a primary numeral; one:–a(-n, -ny, certain), + abundantly, man, one (another), only, other, some.
Maketh = poieo {poy-eh’-o} apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct):–abide, + agree, appoint, X + none of these things move me, observe, ordain, perform, provide, + have purged, purpose, put, + raising up, X secure, shew, X shoot out, spend, take, tarry, + transgress the law, work, yield.
Increase = auxesis {owx’-ay-sis} from auzano {owx-an’-o} a prolonged form of a primary verb; to grow (“wax”), i.e. enlarge (literal or figurative, active or passive):–grow (up), (give the) increase.; growth:–increase.
Colossians 2:19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
Edifying – see Ephesians 4:12
love – See Ephesians 4:15
Ephesians:4:17: This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
say = lego {leg’-o} a primary verb; properly, to “lay” forth, i.e. (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse); by implication, to mean:–ask, bid, boast, call, describe, give out, name, put forth, say(-ing, on), shew, speak, tell, utter.
Testify = marturomai {mar-too’-rom-ahee} middle voice from martus {mar’-toos} of uncertain affinity; a witness (literally (judicially) or figuratively (genitive case)); by analogy, a “martyr”:– martyr, record, witness; to be adduced as a witness, i.e. (figuratively) to obtest (in affirmation or exhortation):–take to record, testify.
Acts 20:26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
Galatians 5:3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
walk = peripateo {per-ee-pat-eh’-o}; to tread all around, i.e. walk at large (especially as proof of ability); figuratively, to live, deport oneself, follow (as a companion or votary):–go, be occupied with, walk (about). See Ephesians 2:2
vanity = mataiotes {mat-ah-yot’-ace} from mataiologos {mat-ah-yol-og’-os}; an idle (i.e. senseless or mischievous) talker, i.e. a wrangler:–vain talker.; inutility; figuratively, transientness; morally, depravity:–vanity.
Romans 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Mind = nous {nooce}; the intellect, i.e. mind (divine or human; in thought, feeling, or will); by implication, meaning:–mind, understanding. Also in verse 23
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Ephesians:4:18: Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Understanding = dianoia {dee-an’-oy-ah}; deep thought, properly, the faculty (mind or its disposition), by implication, its exercise:– imagination, mind, understanding. See Ephesians 1:18
having darkened = skotizo {skot-id-zo} from skotos {skot’-os}; shadiness, i.e. obscurity (literally or figuratively):–darkness.; to obscure (literally or figuratively):–darken.
Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Romans 11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
Alienated = apallotrioo {ap-al-lot-ree-o’-o}; to estrange away, i.e. (passively and figuratively) to be non-participant:– alienate, be alien. See Ephesians 2:12
life = zoe {dzo-ay’} from zao {dzah’-o} a primary verb; to live (literally or figuratively):–life(-time), (a-)live(-ly), quick.; life (literally or figuratively):–life(-time).
1 John 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
Ignorance = agnoia {ag’-noy-ah} from agnoeo {ag-no-eh’-o}; not to know (through lack of information or intelligence); by implication, to ignore (through disinclination):–(be) ignorant(-ly), not know, not understand, unknown. ; ignorance (properly, the quality):–ignorance.
Acts 3:17 And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
Acts 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
blindness = porosis {po’-ro-sis} from poroo {po-ro’-o} apparently from poros (a kind of stone); to petrify, i.e.(figuratively) to indurate (render stupid or callous):– blind, harden.; stupidity or callousness:–blindness, hardness.
Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant (agnoeo )of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Heart = kardia {kar-dee’-ah} prolonged from a primary kar (Latin cor, “heart”); the heart, i.e. (figuratively) the thoughts or feelings (mind); also (by analogy) the middle:–(+broken-)heart(-ed). See Ephesians 3:17
Ephesians:4:19: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Past feeling = apalgeo {ap-alg-eh’-o} from apo (off) and algeo (to smart); to grieve out, i.e. become apathetic:–be past feeling.
Have given = paradidomi {par-ad-id’-o-mee}; to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust, transmit:–betray, bring forth, cast, commit, deliver (up), give (over, up), hazard, put in prison, recommend.
Lasciviousness = aselgeia {as-elg’-i-a} from a compound of a (as a negative particle) and a presumed selges (of uncertain derivation, but apparently meaning continent); licentiousness (sometimes including other vices):–filthy, lasciviousness, wantonness.
2 Corinthians 12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
2 Peter 2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
Uncleanness = akatharsia {ak-ath-ar-See’-ah} from akathartos {ak-ath’-ar-tos}; impure (ceremonially, morally (lewd) or specially, (demonic)):–foul, unclean. ; impurity (the quality), physically or morally:–uncleanness.
Romans 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Romans 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
2 Cor 12:21…see above
greediness = pleonexia {pleh-on-ex-ee’-ah} from leonektes {pleh-on-ek’-tace}; holding (desiring) more,i.e. eager for gain (avaricious, hence a defrauder):–covetous. ; avarice, i.e. (by implication)
fraudulency, extortion:–covetous(-ness) practices, greediness.
2 Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
Ephesians:4:20: But ye have not so learned Christ;
learned = manthano {man-than’-o} prolongation from a primary verb, another form of which, matheo, is used as an alternate in certain tenses; to learn (in any way):–learn,understand.
Ephesians:4:21: If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
heard = akouo {ak-oo’-o} a primary verb; to hear (in various senses):–give (in the) audience (of), come (to the ears), (shall) hear(-er, -ken), be noised, be reported, understand.
Taught = didasko {did-as’-ko} a prolonged (causative) form of a primary verb dao (to learn); to teach (in the same broad application):–teach.
truth = aletheia {al-ay’-thi-a from alethes {al-ay-thace’}; true (as not concealing):–true, truly, truth; truth:–true, X truly, truth, verity.
Here and in verse 24
Ephesians:4:22: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
put off = apotithemi {ap-ot-eeth’-ay-mee}; to put away (literally or figuratively):–cast off, lay apart (aside, down), put away (off).
See Ephesians 4:25
Colossians 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
James 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
1 Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Former = proteros {prot’-er-os} comparative of pro {pro} a primary preposition; “fore”, i.e. in front of, prior (figuratively, superior) to:–above, ago, before, or ever. In the comparative, it retains the same significations ; prior or previous:–former.
only here.
Conversation =anastrophe {an-as-trof-ay’} from anastrepho {an-as-tref’-o}; to overturn; also to return; by implication, to busy oneself, i.e. remain, live:–abide, behave self, have conversation,
live, overthrow, pass, return, be used; behavior:–conversation.
Galatians 1:13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
James 3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
1 Peter 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
1 Peter 2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
1 Peter 3:1-2 1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; 2While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
1 Peter 3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
2 Peter 2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
2 Peter 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
Old man =palaios {pal-ah-yos’} from palai {pal’-ahee} ; (adverbially) formerly, or (by relatively) sometime since; (elliptically as adjective) ancient:–any while, a great while ago, (of) old, in time past; antique, i.e. not recent, worn out:–old. anthropos {anth’-ro-pos} from aner {an’-ayr}; a man and ops (the countenance); man-faced, i.e. a human being:–certain, man.
Romans 6:6: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Colossians 3:9: Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
corrupt = phtheiro {fthi’-ro} probably strengthened from phthio (to pine or waste); properly, to shrivel or wither, i.e. to spoil (by any process) or (generally) to ruin (especially figuratively, by moral influences, to deprave):–corrupt (self), defile, destroy.
1 Corinthians 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Deceitful = apate {ap-at’-ay} from apatao {ap-at-ah’-o} of uncertain derivation; to cheat, i.e. delude:–deceive; delusion:–deceit(-ful, -fulness), deceivableness(-ving).
2 Thessalonians 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Hebrews 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
2 Peter 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
lusts = epithumia {ep-ee-thoo-mee’-ah} from epithumeo {ep-ee-thoo-meh’-o}; to set the heart upon, i.e. long for (rightfully or otherwise):–covet, desire, would fain, lust (after). ; a longing (especially for what is forbidden):–concupiscence, desire, lust (after).
Ephesians:4:23: And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
renewed = ananeoo {an-an-neh-o’-o}; to renovate, i.e. reform:–renew.
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Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
spirit = pneuma {pnyoo’-mah}; a current of air, i.e. breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively, a spirit, i.e. (human) the rational soul, (by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc., or (superhuman) an angel, demon, or (divine) God, Christ’s spirit, the Holy Spirit:–ghost, life, spirit(-ual, -ually), mind.
Mind See Ephesians 4:17
Ephesians:4:24: And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Put on = enduo {en-doo’-o} (sinking into a garment); to invest with clothing (literally or figuratively):–array, clothe (with), endue, have (put) on.
Romans 13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Romans 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Galatians 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Colossians 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
New = kainos {kahee-nos’} of uncertain affinity; new (especially in freshness; while neos {neh’-os} is properly so with respect to age:–new.
Man = anthropos {anth’-ro-pos} from aner {an’-ayr};( a man (properly as an individualmale):–fellow, husband, man, sir. ) and ops (the countenance); man-faced, i.e. a human being:–certain, man.
created = ktizo {ktid’-zo} probably akin to ktaomai {ktah’-om-ahee} a primary verb; to get, i.e. acquire (by any means;own):–obtain, possess, provide, purchase.(through the idea of proprietorship of the manufacturer); to fabricate, i.e. found (form originally):–create, Creator, make.
See Ephesians 2:10
righteousness = dikaiosune {dik-ah-yos-oo’-nay} from dikaios {dik’-ah-yos from dike {dee’-kay}; right (as self-evident), i.e. justice (the principle, a decision, or its execution):–judgment, punish, vengeance. ; equitable (in character or act); by implication, innocent, holy (absolutely or relatively):–just, meet, right(-eous). ; equity (of character or act); specially (Christian) justification:–righteousness.
In 5:9 and 6:14
true = see verse 21
holiness = hosiotes {hos-ee-ot’-ace} from hosios {hos’-ee-os} of uncertain affinity; properly, right (by intrinsic or divine character), i.e. hallowed (pious, sacred, sure):–holy, mercy, shalt be.; piety:–holiness.
Lu:1:75: In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
Ephesians:4:25: Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Putting away = see verse 22
lying = pseudos {psyoo’-dos} from pseudomai {psyoo’-dom-ahee} middle voice of an apparently primary verb; to utter an untruth or attempt to deceive by falsehood:–falsely, lie; a falsehood:–lie, lying.
1 John 2:21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
Speak = laleo {lal-eh’-o} a prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb; to talk, i.e. utter words:–preach, say, speak (after), talk, tell, utter.
Different word used than in 4:15 where it says speak the truth
truthfulness = aletheia {al-ay’-thi-a from alethes {al-ay-thace’}; true (as not concealing):–true, truly, truth.; truth:–true, X truly, truth, verity.
Neighbor = plesion {play-See’-on} neuter of a derivative of pelas (near); (adverbially) close by; as noun, a neighbor, i.e. fellow (as man, countryman, Christian or friend):–near, neighbour.
Members = melos {mel’-os} of uncertain affinity; a limb or part of the body:–member. here and in 5:30
Ephesians:4:26: Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
angry = orgizo {or-gid’-zo} from orge {or-gay’} from oregomai {or-eg’-om-ahee} middle voice of apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to stretch oneself, i.e. reach out after (long for):–
covet after, desire.; properly, desire (as a reaching forth or excitement of the mind), i.e. (by analogy), violent passion (ire, or (justifiable) abhorrence); by implication punishment:–anger, indignation, vengeance, wrath. ; to provoke or enrage, i.e. (passively) become exasperated:–be angry (wroth).
sin = hamartano {ham-ar-tan’-o} ; properly, to miss the mark (and so not share in the prize), i.e. (figuratively) to err, especially (morally) to sin:–for your faults, offend, sin, trespass.
Sun = helios {hay’-lee-os} from hele (a ray); the sun; by implication, light:–+ east, sun.
go down = epiduo {ep-ee-doo’-o}; to set fully (as the sun):–go down.
Wrath = parorgismos {par-org-is-mos’} from parorgizo {par-org-id’-zo}; to anger alongside, i.e. enrage:–anger, provoke to wrath. ; rage:–wrath.
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Ephesians:4:27: Neither give place to the devil.
Give = see verse 11
place = topos {top’-os} apparently a primary word; a spot (general in space, but limited by occupancy), i.e. location (as a position, home, tract, etc.); figuratively, condition, opportunity; specially, a scabbard:–coast, licence, place, X plain, quarter, + rock, room, where.
Romans 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Devil = diabolos {dee-ab’-ol-os} from diaballo {dee-ab-al’-lo}; (figuratively) to traduce:–accuse. ; a traducer; specially, Satan :–false accuser, devil, slanderer. also in 6:11
Ephesians:4:28: Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Stole and steal = klepto {klep’-to} a primary verb; to filch:–steal.
Romans 2:21Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
Romans 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
no more = meketi {may-ket’-ee}; no further:–any longer, (not) henceforth, hereafter, no henceforward (longer, more, soon), not any more.
Labour = kopiao {kop-ee-ah’-o}; to feel fatigue; by implication, to work hard:–(bestow) labour, toil, be wearied.
Working = ergazomai {er-gad’-zom-ahee} middle voice from ergon {er’-gon} from a primary (but obsolete) ergo (to work); toil (as an effort or occupation); by implication, an act:–deed, doing, labour, work.; to toil (as a task, occupation, etc.), (by implication) effect, be engaged in or with, etc.:–commit, do, labor for, minister about, trade (by), work.
1 Corinthians 4:12: And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
hands = cheir (hollowness for grasping); the hand (literally or figuratively (power); especially (by Hebraism) a means or instrument):–hand.
Good = agathos {ag-ath-os’} a primary word; “good” (in any sense, often as noun):–benefit, good(-s, things), well.
give to = metadidomi {met-ad-id’-o-mee}; to give over, i.e. share:– give, impart.
Luke 3:11: He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
Romans 1:11: For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;
Romans12:8: Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, [let him do it] with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
1 Thessalonians 2:8: So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
Needeth = chreia {khri’-ah}; employment, i.e. an affair; also (by implication) occasion, demand, requirement or destitution:–business, lack, necessary(-ity), need(-ful), use, want.
Ephesians:4:29: Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Corrupt = sapros {sap-ros’}; rotten, i.e. worthless (literally or morally):–bad, corrupt.
Matthew 7:17:Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
Matthew 7:18: A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
communication = logos {log’-os} ; something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ):–account, cause, communication, X concerning, doctrine, fame, X have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, + reckon, remove, say(-ing), shew, X speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work.
Proceed = ekporeuomai {ek-por-yoo’-om-ahee}; to depart, be discharged, proceed, project:–come (forth, out of), depart, go (forth, out), issue, proceed (out of).
John 15:26: But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
mouth = stoma {stom’-a}; the mouth (as if a gash in the face); by implication, language (and its relations); figuratively, an opening (in the earth); specially, the front or edge (of a weapon):–edge,
face, mouth.
James 3:10: Out of the same mouth proceedeth ( proceedeth is a different word than here than proceed in Ephesians) blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
good = agathos {ag-ath-os’} a primary word; “good” (in any sense, often as noun):–benefit, good(-s, things), well.
Use = chreia {khri’-ah}; employment, i.e. an affair; also (by implication) occasion, demand, requirement or destitution:–business, lack, necessary(-ity), need(-ful), use, want.
edifying = see verse 12
minister = didomi {did’-o-mee} a prolonged form of a primary verb (which is used as an alternative in most of the tenses); to give (used in a very wide application, properly, or by implication, literally or figuratively; greatly modified by the connection):–adventure, bestow, bring forth, commit, deliver (up), give, grant, hinder, make, minister, number, offer, have power, put, receive, set, shew, smite (+ with the hand), strike (+ with the
palm of the hand), suffer, take, utter, yield.
grace = charis {khar’-ece} from chairo ( {khah’-ee-ro} a primary verb; to be “cheer”ful, i.e. calmly happy or well-off; impersonally, especially as salutation (on meeting or parting), be well:–farewell, be glad, God speed, greeting, hall, joy(- fully), rejoice.); graciousness (as gratifying), of manner or act (abstract or concrete; literal, figurative or spiritual; especially the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life; including gratitude):–acceptable, benefit, favour, gift, grace(- ious), joy, liberality, pleasure, thank(-s, -worthy).
Hearers = akouo {ak-oo’-o} a primary verb; to hear (in various senses):–give (in the) audience (of), come (to the ears), (shall) hear(-er, -ken), be noised, be reported, understand.
Ephesians:4:30: And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Grieve = lupeo {loo-peh’-o} from lupe {loo’-pay} apparently a primary word; sadness:–grief, grievous, + grudgingly, heaviness, sorrow.; to distress; reflexively or passively, to be sad:–cause grief, grieve, be in heaviness, (be) sorrow(-ful), be (make) sorry.
sealed = sphragizo {sfrag-id’-zo} from sphragis {sfrag-ece’} ( a signet (as fencing in or protecting from misappropriation); by implication, the stamp impressed (as a mark of privacy, or genuineness), literally or figuratively:–seal. ); to stamp (with a signet or private mark) for security or preservation (literally or figuratively); by implication, to keep secret, to attest:–(set a, set to) seal up, stop.
Day = hemera {hay-mer’-ah} feminine of a derivative of hemai (to sit) meaning tame, i.e. gentle; day, i.e. (literally) the time space between dawn and dark, or the whole 24 hours (but several days were usually reckoned by the Jews as inclusive of the parts of both extremes); figuratively, a period (always defined more or less clearly by the context):–age, + alway, (mid-)day (by day, (-ly)), + for ever, judgment, (day) time, while, years.
redemption = apolutrosis {ap-ol-oo’-tro-sis}; (the act) ransom in full, i.e. (figuratively) riddance, or (specially) Christian salvation:–deliverance, redemption. See Ephesians 1:7
Ephesians:4:31: Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
bitterness = pikria {pik-ree’-ah} from pikros {pik-ros’}; sharp (pungent), i.e. acrid (literally or figuratively):–bitter.; acridity (especially poison), literally or figuratively:–bitterness.
Acts 8:23: For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and [in] the bond of iniquity.
Hebrews 12:15: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled;
wrath = thumos {thoo-mos’} from thuo {thoo’-o} a primary verb; properly, to rush (breathe hard, blow, smoke), i.e. (by implication) to sacrifice (properly, by fire, but genitive case); by extension to
immolate (slaughter for any purpose):–kill, (do) sacrifice, slay.; passion (as if breathing hard):–fierceness, indignation, wrath.
Galatians 5:19-21 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Colossians 3:8: But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Anger = orge {or-gay’} from oregomai {or-eg’-om-ahee} middle voice of apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to stretch oneself, i.e. reach out after (long for):–covet after, desire.; properly, desire (as a reaching forth or excitement of the mind), i.e. (by analogy), violent passion (ire, or (justifiable) abhorrence); by implication punishment:–anger, indignation, vengeance, wrath.
See Ephesians 2:3
clamour = krauge {krow-gay’} from krazo {krad’-zo} a primary verb; properly, to “croak” (as a raven) or scream, i.e.; an outcry (in notification, tumult or grief):–clamour, cry(-ing).
evil speaking = blasphemia {blas-fay-me’-ah} from blasphemos {blas’-fay-mos}; scurrilious, i.e. calumnious (against men), or (specially) impious (against God):–blasphemer(-mous),railing. ; vilification (especially against God):–blasphemy, evil speaking, railing.
put away = airo {ah’-ee-ro} a primary root; to lift up; by implication, to take up or away; figuratively, to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind), specially, to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Hebraism to expiate sin:–away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up).
malice = kakia {kak-ee’-ah} from kakos {kak-os’} apparently a primary word; worthless (intrinsically, such), i.e. (subjectively) depraved, or (objectively) injurious:–bad, evil, harm, ill, noisome, wicked. ; badness, i.e. (subjectively) depravity, or (actively)malignity, or (passively) trouble:–evil, malice(-iousness), naughtiness, wickedness.
Ephesians:4:32: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Kind = chrestos {khrase-tos’ from chraomai {khrah’-om-ahee} middle voice of a primary verb (to handle); to furnish what is needed; (give an oracle, “graze” (touch slightly), light upon, etc.), i.e. (by implication) to employ or (by extension) to act towards one in a given manner:–entreat, use.; employed, i.e. (by implication) useful (in manner or morals):–better, easy, good(-ness), gracious, kind.
Matthew 11:30: For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light.
Luke 5:39: No man also having drunk old [wine] straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
Luke 6:35: But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and [to] the evil.
Romans 2:4: Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
1 Corinthians 15:33: Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Tenderhearted = eusplagchnos {yoo’-splangkh-nos}; well compassioned,i.e. sympathetic:–pitiful, tender-hearted.
1 Peter 3:8: Finally, [be ye] all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous:
forgiving and forgiven = charizomai {khar-id’-zom-ahee} middle voice from charis {khar’-ece} from chairo {khah’-ee-ro} a primary verb; to be “cheer”ful, i.e. calmly happy or well-off; impersonally, especially as salutation (on meeting or parting), be well:–farewell, be glad, God speed, greeting, hall, joy(- fully), rejoice.; graciousness (as gratifying), of manner or act (abstract or concrete; literal, figurative or spiritual; especially the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life; including gratitude):–acceptable, benefit, favour, gift, grace(- ious), joy, liberality, pleasure, thank(-s, -worthy). ; to grant as a favor, i.e. gratuitously, in kindness, pardon or rescue:–deliver, (frankly) forgive, (freely) give, grant.
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