Ephesians 4
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The verses these writers stop at
- 4:30 And do not grieve God's Holy Spirit. It was with the Spirit that you were sealed, marked out for the day of redemption. 23
- 4:3 Spare no effort to keep the unity the Spirit gives, with peace as the bond that holds you together. 16
- 4:15 Instead, as we speak the truth in love, we must grow in every respect into him, the head, Christ. 16
- 4:11 It was he who gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers. 12
- 4:32 Be kind to one another and full of compassion. Forgive each other freely, just as God has forgiven you in Christ. 12
- 4:24 and to put on the new self, created in God's likeness, in the righteousness and holiness that come from the truth. 11
- 4:25 So now that you have stripped off falsehood, each of you must tell your neighbor the truth, for we are members of one another. 10
- 4:26 If you become angry, do not let it lead you into sin. Do not let the sunset find you still angry, 10
- 4:4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as there is one hope that belongs to the call you received. 9
- 4:1 So I, a prisoner for the Lord, appeal to you: live in a way that is worthy of God's call, the call that came to you. 8
- 4:8 That is why it says, "When he went up on high, he led a band of captives, and he gave gifts to people." 8
- 4:16 From him the whole body is joined and held together by every ligament that supplies it. As each part does its own work, the body grows and builds itself up in love. 8
- 4:14 We will no longer be infants, thrown about by the waves and driven this way and that by each new wind of teaching, at the mercy of people who play tricks and cunningly scheme to lead others astray. 7
- 4:22 You were taught to strip off the old self, the self of your former way of life, which is being ruined by its deceitful desires; 6
- 4:12 He gave them to equip God's holy people for the work of serving, so that the body of Christ would be built up, 5
- 4:28 Thieves must steal no more. Instead they must work hard, doing something good with their own hands, so that they have something to share with anyone in need. 5
- 4:5 There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 4
- 4:10 The one who came down is the very same one who went up, far above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things. 4
- 4:13 until all of us arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God. Then we will be a mature adult, grown to the full measure of the stature that belongs to the fullness of Christ. 4
- 4:19 They have lost all feeling and have given themselves over to indecency, practicing every kind of impurity with an appetite that always wants more. 4
- 4:23 to be made new in the spirit of your minds; 4
- 4:29 Let no rotten word pass your lips. Say only what is good, what builds up and meets the need of the moment, so that your words bring grace to those who hear them. 4
- 4:21 You surely heard him and were taught as people who belong to him, in keeping with the truth that is in Jesus. 3
- 4:2 Be humble and gentle in every way, and be patient, putting up with one another in love. 2
- 4:7 But grace was given to each one of us, in the measure in which Christ gave it. 2
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Where it is preached
- Portraits of Courage – Watchman Nee ·
Walk: Christ Lived Through Us cites Ephesians 4:1
…in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called” (Ephesians 4:1, ASV). Watchman Nee built the second movement of Sit, Walk, Stand around this word: walk.…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Christ's Exaltation cites Eph 4:10
…of the sun.’ But the Scripture plainly says he ascended into heaven. Luke 24:51 and Eph 4:10. ‘Far above all heavens;’ therefore above the firmament. He is ascended into the highest…
- A Body of Divinity ·
A Preliminary Discourse to Catechising cites Eph 4:14
…rapit ventus inanes palae jactantur. Cyprian. Therefore such are compared to children. Eph 4:14. ‘That we be no more children, tossed to and fro.’ Children are fickle sometimes of one…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.6 The Sixth Commandment cites Eph 4: 19
…murder their souls who have no sense of God, or the world to come, and are past feeling. Eph 4: 19. Tell them of God’s holiness and justice, and they are not at all affected. ‘They made…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 2, Chapter 1 — Through the Fall and Revolt of Adam, the Whole Human Race Made Accursed and Degenerate cites Eph. 4:23
…part of the soul is corrected, but includes a complete reformation of all its parts (Eph. 4:23). And, accordingly, Paul enjoins not only that gross appetites be suppressed, but that we…
- The Key Teachings of Amanda Berry Smith ·
God in You cites EPHESIANS 4:24
…ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. EPHESIANS 4:24 The centre of Amanda Smith’s life and teaching was a single Sunday morning in September…
- The Key Teachings of Watchman Nee ·
Walk cites Ephesians 4:25
…concerns another person. Lying is forbidden because we are members one of another (Ephesians 4:25). Anger must not be carried overnight. Stealing is replaced by working so that there may…
- Faithful With Little ·
Made to Work, Called to Keep cites Ephesians 4:28
…good with their own hands, so that they have something to share with anyone in need” (Ephesians 4:28). Look at that. The ex-thief does not just stop taking. He starts working, and he works…
- The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit ·
The Personality of the Holy Spirit cites Ephesians 4:30
…which the personality of the Holy Spirit comes out more tenderly and touchingly than in Ephesians 4:30: “30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of…
- Old Paths ·
The Holy Ghost cites Ephes. iv. 30
…Christ. (John xiv. 16.) He has personal affections ascribed to Him. (Isaiah lxiii.:10; Ephes. iv. 30; Rom. xv. 30.) He has a mind, will, and power of His own. (Rom. viii. 27; 1 Cor. xii. 11…
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
Of the Church cites Ephesians 4:1–6
…baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” Ephesians 4:1–6. 1. How much do we almost continually hear about the Church! With many it is matter of…
- Portraits of Courage – Watchman Nee ·
Sit: Our Position in Christ cites Ephesians 4:1
…“I therefore ... beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called” (Ephesians 4:1, ASV). The “therefore” is the bridge. Chapters 1-3 have given the calling; chapters 4-6…
- The Key Teachings of Ignatius of Antioch ·
Where Jesus Is, There Is the Universal Church cites Ephesians 4:1–16
…— contempt for other Christians, or pleasure in their failings. Confess it. 5. Read Ephesians 4:1–16 and ask how you can keep “the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace” where you are. A…
- All Things for Good ·
Exhortations to those who are called cites Ephes. iv. 1
…therefore, beseech you, that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called” (Ephes. iv. 1). Christians must keep a decorum, they must observe what is comely. This is a seasonable…
- Our Daily Walk ·
November cites Eph 4:1
…with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love.”— Eph 4:1, 2. THE MEEK man, according to Luther, is the sweet-tempered man. Meekness and lowliness…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Effectual Calling cites Eph 4:1
…calling. ‘I beseech you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called;’ Eph 4:1; in two things. (1.) Walk compassionately. Pity such as are yet uncalled. Hast thou a…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 4, Chapter 12 — Of the Discipline of the Church, and Its Principal Use in Censures and Excommunication cites Eph. 4:2
…by bearing with each other, to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace” (Eph. 4:2). 14. The remaining part of discipline, which is not, strictly speaking, included in the…
- The Key Teachings of C. S. Lewis ·
The Faith Held in Common cites EPHESIANS 4:3
…and pray for them. Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. EPHESIANS 4:3 This was a generous vision, and it shaped all his work. He wrote, as far as he could, for…
- The Key Teachings of John Wesley ·
Free Grace cites EPHESIANS 4:3
…love for a brother. Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. EPHESIANS 4:3 FOR REFLECTION AND ACTION 1. Thank God that His grace is free in all: that nothing in you…
- Real Questions – Book 1 ·
Why Do Christians Disagree So Much? cites Ephesians 4:3
…to work “with diligence to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace” (Ephesians 4:3), because there is “one Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Ephesians 4:5). In practice…
- The Key Teachings of Andrew Murray ·
The Fruit of the Spirit Is Love cites EPHESIANS 4:3–4
…There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling. EPHESIANS 4:3–4 This takes the pursuit of spiritual blessing out of the realm of private experience and…
- The Key Teachings of Amanda Berry Smith ·
No Sects in Heaven cites EPHESIANS 4:3
…is a sound instinct. Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. EPHESIANS 4:3 FOR REFLECTION AND ACTION 1. Think of believers from another tradition than yours whom…
- The Key Teachings of Athanasius of Alexandria ·
Athanasius Against the World cites EPHESIANS 4:3
…Constantinople in 381. Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. EPHESIANS 4:3 So Athanasius teaches both halves of a hard lesson. Do not buy peace by giving up the…
- The Key Teachings of Augustine of Hippo ·
The Church and the Sacraments cites EPHESIANS 4:3–5
…even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism. EPHESIANS 4:3–5 Signs and grace Augustine gave the Western church much of its language about sacraments.…
- The Key Teachings of Martin Luther ·
This Is My Body cites EPHESIANS 4:3
…temper made it worse. Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. EPHESIANS 4:3 The reader who shares Luther’s view will find in his writings a deep and consoling…
- The Key Teachings of George Whitefield ·
Friends Who Differed cites EPHESIANS 4:3
Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. EPHESIANS 4:3 The two most famous preachers of the eighteenth-century revival in England were friends.…
- The Key Teachings of John Owen ·
The Church and Liberty of Conscience cites EPHESIANS 4:3–4
…There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling. EPHESIANS 4:3–4 His friendship with John Bunyan, a Baptist who differed from him on baptism and on church…
- The Key Teachings of Charles G. Finney ·
I Am Doing a Great Work cites EPHESIANS 4:3
…the Spirit in any way. Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. EPHESIANS 4:3 Repent — including us What is most impressive about this lecture is that Finney did not…
- The Key Teachings of Martyn Lloyd-Jones ·
The Church and Evangelical Unity cites EPHESIANS 4:3
Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. EPHESIANS 4:3 This chapter concerns the most painful episode of Lloyd-Jones’s public life, and it must…
- The Key Teachings of Richard Baxter ·
A Mere Christian cites EPHESIANS 4:3
…being set aside. Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. EPHESIANS 4:3 Note the verb. Not create the unity — keep it. It already exists; our task is to avoid…
- The Key Teachings of Watchman Nee ·
The Body of Christ cites Ephesians 4:3
…are asked to keep it: endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Ephesians 4:3). Division, on this view, is not the breaking of the Body — which cannot be broken — but…
- The Way Into the Holiest ·
The Ideal Life cites Eph. iv. 3
…(2 Tim. ii. 22). He will endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Eph. iv. 3). He will sow harvests of peace as he makes peace (James iii. 18). All his epistles, like…
- How to Succeed in the Christian Life ·
Church Membership cites Eph. 4: 4
…Divine Lord and only King; one baptism, the baptism in the one Spirit into the one body (Eph. 4: 4, 5; 1 Cor. 12: 13). But each individual Christian needs the fellowship of individual…
- Divine Healing ·
The Holy Spirit the Spirit of Healing cites Eph. 4:4
…of the Spirit, for they form our indissoluble unity; “one body and one Spirit” (Eph. 4:4). The Spirit operates variously in such or such a member of the Church. It is possible to…
- The Key in My Hand ·
The Body of Christ cites Ephesians 4:4
…the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. For, he declares, “There is ONE BODY” (Ephesians 4:4). He continues by writing about some of the grace gifts in verse seven given to that…
- Portraits of Courage – Watchman Nee ·
The Church and the Body of Christ cites Ephesians 4:4
…apostolic doctrine. Christ remains the only absolute Head. One Body “There is one body” (Ephesians 4:4, ASV). Nee's refusal of denominational identity emerged from taking that statement with…
- Portraits of Courage – Watchman Nee ·
Appendix a: Twenty-Five Core Teachings of Watchman Nee cites Ephesians 4:4
…one Body whether or not all gather under one roof. “There is one body, and one Spirit” (Ephesians 4:4, ASV). The practical rule, however, is more debatable. Scripture does not explicitly…
- The Key Teachings of Jeanne Guyon ·
Streams Beyond the Walls cites EPHESIANS 4:4–6
…baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. EPHESIANS 4:4–6 Reading her across the divide That raises a question Protestant readers should face…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
VIII. Truly gracious affections differ from those affections that are false and delusive, in that they tend to, and are attended with the lamblike, dovelike spirit and temper of Jesus Christ cites Eph. 4:4
…8:9. There is but one Spirit to the whole mystical body, head and members, 1 Cor. 6:17, Eph. 4:4. Christ breathes his own Spirit on his disciples, John 20:22. As Christ was anointed with…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 4, Chapter 1 — Of the True Church cites Eph. 4:4
…“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling” (Eph. 4:4). For if they are truly persuaded that God is the common Father of them all, and Christ…
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