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Ephesians 4:2-12
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with all
1
humility and
2
gentleness, with
3
patience,
4
bearing with one another in love,
3
eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in
5
the bond of peace.
4
There is
6
one body and
7
one Spirit--just as you were called to the one
8
hope that belongs to your call--
5
9
one Lord,
10
one faith,
11
one baptism,
6
12
one God and Father of all,
13
who is over all and through all and in all.
7
But
14
grace was given
15
to each one of us
16
according to the measure of Christ's gift.
8
Therefore it says,
17
"When he ascended on high
18
he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men."
9
(
19
In saying, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also descended into
20
the lower regions, the earth?
[a]
10
He who descended is the one who also
21
ascended
22
far above all the heavens, that he might
23
fill all things.)
11
And
24
he gave the
25
apostles, the prophets, the
26
evangelists, the
27
shepherds
[b]
and teachers,
[c]
12
28
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for
29
building up
30
the body of Christ,
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Cross References
30
1.
Acts 20:19
;
Philippians 2:3
;
Colossians 3:12
;
1 Peter 3:8
;
1 Peter 5:5
; [
Colossians 2:18, 23
]
2.
Galatians 5:23
3.
Colossians 1:11
4.
Colossians 3:13
5.
Colossians 3:14
; [
Acts 8:23
]
6.
Ephesians 2:16
7.
See
Ephesians 2:18
8.
Ephesians 1:18
9.
Zechariah 14:9
; See
1 Corinthians 1:13
;
1 Corinthians 8:6
10.
[ver. 13;
Jude 3
]
11.
See
Galatians 3:27, 28
12.
1 Corinthians 12:5, 6
13.
Romans 9:5
14.
See
Ephesians 3:2
15.
[
Matthew 25:15
;
1 Corinthians 12:7
]
16.
Romans 12:3
; [ver. 16]
17.
Cited from
Psalms 68:18
18.
Judges 5:12
; [
Colossians 2:15
]
19.
See
John 3:13
20.
Psalms 63:9
;
Isaiah 44:23
21.
See
Mark 16:19
22.
Hebrews 4:14
;
Hebrews 7:26
;
Hebrews 9:24
23.
Ephesians 1:23
24.
[
1 Corinthians 12:5, 6
]
25.
See
1 Corinthians 12:28
26.
Acts 21:8
;
2 Timothy 4:5
27.
Jeremiah 3:15
; [
Acts 20:28
]
28.
See
2 Corinthians 13:9
29.
ver. 16, 29
30.
See
1 Corinthians 12:27
Footnotes
3
[a].
Or the lower parts of the earth?
[b].
Or pastors
[c].
Or the shepherd-teachers
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