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Weymouth + +Posting Date: March 14, 2015 [EBook #8837] +Release Date: September, 2005 +First Posted: August 25, 2003 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WEYMOUTH NEW TESTAMENT--EPHESIANS *** + + + + +Produced by Martin Ward + + + + + + + + +Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Ephesians + +Third Edition 1913 + + +R. F. Weymouth + + + + +Book 49 Ephesians + +001:001 Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God: To God's + people who are in Ephesus--believers in Christ Jesus. + +001:002 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father + and the Lord Jesus Christ. + +001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, + who has crowned us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly + realms in Christ; + +001:004 even as, in His love, He chose us as His own in Christ before + the creation of the world, that we might be holy and without + blemish in His presence. + +001:005 For He pre-destined us to be adopted by Himself as sons through + Jesus Christ--such being His gracious will and pleasure-- + +001:006 to the praise of the splendour of His grace with which He has + enriched us in the beloved One. + +001:007 It is in Him, and through the shedding of His blood, that we + have our deliverance--the forgiveness of our offences-- + so abundant was God's grace, + +001:008 the grace which He, the possessor of all wisdom and understanding, + lavished upon us, + +001:009 when He made known to us the secret of His will. + And this is in harmony with God's merciful purpose + +001:010 for the government of the world when the times are ripe for it-- + the purpose which He has cherished in His own mind of restoring + the whole creation to find its one Head in Christ; yes, things in + Heaven and things on earth, to find their one Head in Him. + +001:011 In Him we Jews have been made heirs, having been chosen + beforehand in accordance with the intention of Him whose + might carries out in everything the design of His own will, + +001:012 so that we should be devoted to the extolling of His + glorious attributes--we who were the first to fix our + hopes on Christ. + +001:013 And in Him you Gentiles also, after listening to the Message + of the truth, the Good News of your salvation--having believed + in Him--were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit; + +001:014 that Spirit being a pledge and foretaste of our inheritance, + in anticipation of its full redemption--the inheritance + which He has purchased to be specially His for the extolling + of His glory. + +001:015 For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus + which prevails among you, and of your love for all God's people, + +001:016 offer never ceasing thanks on your behalf while I make mention + of you in my prayers. + +001:017 For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ-- + the Father most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom + and penetration through an intimate knowledge of Him, + +001:018 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened so that you + may know what is the hope which His call to you inspires, + what the wealth of the glory of His inheritance in God's people, + +001:019 and what the transcendent greatness of His power in us believers + as seen in the working of His infinite might + +001:020 when He displayed it in Christ by raising Him from the dead + and seating Him at His own right hand in the heavenly realms, + +001:021 high above all other government and authority and power + and dominion, and every title of sovereignty used either + in this Age or in the Age to come. + +001:022 God has put all things under His feet, and has appointed Him + universal and supreme Head of the Church, which is His Body, + +001:023 the completeness of Him who everywhere fills the universe + with Himself. + +002:001 To you Gentiles also, who were dead through your offences and sins, + +002:002 which were once habitual to you while you walked in the ways + of this world and obeyed the Prince of the powers of the air, + the spirits that are now at work in the hearts of the sons + of disobedience--to you God has given Life. + +002:003 Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by + the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings + of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our + original state deserving of anger like all others. + +002:004 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love + which He bestowed on us, + +002:005 caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live + with Christ--it is by grace that you have been saved-- + +002:006 raised us with Him from the dead, and enthroned us with Him + in the heavenly realms as being in Christ Jesus, + +002:007 in order that, by His goodness to us in Christ Jesus, He might + display in the Ages to come the transcendent riches of His grace. + +002:008 For it is by grace that you have been saved through faith; + and that not of yourselves. It is God's gift, and is not on + the ground of merit-- + +002:009 so that it may be impossible for any one to boast. + +002:010 For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus + for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise. + +002:011 Therefore, do not forget that formerly you were Gentiles as to + your bodily condition. You were called the Uncircumcision + by those who style themselves the Circumcised--their circumcision + being one which the knife has effected. + +002:012 At that time you were living apart from Christ, estranged from + the Commonwealth of Israel, with no share by birth in the Covenants + which are based on the Promises, and you had no hope and no God, + in all the world. + +002:013 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were so far away have been + brought near through the death of Christ. + +002:014 For He is our peace--He who has made Jews and Gentiles one, and in + His own human nature has broken down the hostile dividing wall, + +002:015 by setting aside the Law with its commandments, expressed, + as they were, in definite decrees. His design was to unite + the two sections of humanity in Himself so as to form + one new man, + +002:016 thus effecting peace, and to reconcile Jews and Gentiles + in one body to God, by means of His cross--slaying by it + their mutual enmity. + +002:017 So He came and proclaimed good news of peace to you who were + so far away, and peace to those who were near; + +002:018 because it is through Him that Jews and Gentiles alike have + access through one Spirit to the Father. + +002:019 You are therefore no longer mere foreigners or persons excluded + from civil rights. On the contrary you share citizenship + with God's people and are members of His family. + +002:020 You are a building which has been reared on the foundation + of the Apostles and Prophets, the cornerstone being + Christ Jesus Himself, + +002:021 in union with whom the whole fabric, fitted and closely + joined together, is growing so as to form a holy sanctuary + in the Lord; + +002:022 in whom you also are being built up together to become a fixed + abode for God through the Spirit. + +003:001 For this reason I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf + of you Gentiles-- + +003:002 if, that is, you have heard of the work which God has graciously + entrusted to me for your benefit, + +003:003 and that by a revelation the truth hitherto kept secret was made + known to me as I have already briefly explained it to you. + +003:004 By means of that explanation, as you read it, you can judge + of my insight into the truth of Christ + +003:005 which in earlier ages was not made known to the human race, + as it has now been revealed to His holy Apostles and Prophets + through the Spirit-- + +003:006 I mean the truth that the Gentiles are joint heirs with us Jews, + and that they form one body with us, and have the same + interest as we have in the promise which has been made good + in Christ Jesus through the Good News, + +003:007 in which I have been appointed to serve, in virtue of + the work which God, in the exercise of His power within me, + has graciously entrusted to me. + +003:008 To me who am less than the least of all God's people has this + work been graciously entrusted--to proclaim to the Gentiles + the Good News of the exhaustless wealth of Christ, + +003:009 and to show all men in a clear light what my stewardship is. + It is the stewardship of the truth which from all the Ages + lay concealed in the mind of God, the Creator of all things-- + +003:010 concealed in order that the Church might now be used to + display to the powers and authorities in the heavenly realms + the innumerable aspects of God's wisdom. + +003:011 Such was the eternal purpose which He had formed in + Christ Jesus our Lord, + +003:012 in whom we have this bold and confident access through our + faith in Him. + +003:013 Therefore I entreat you not to lose heart in the midst of my + sufferings on your behalf, for they bring you honour. + +003:014 For this reason, on bended knee I beseech the Father, + +003:015 from whom the whole family in Heaven and on earth derives its name, + +003:016 to grant you--in accordance with the wealth of His + glorious perfections--to be strengthened by His Spirit + with power penetrating to your inmost being. + +003:017 I pray that Christ may make His home in your hearts through + your faith; so that having your roots deep and your foundations + strong, in love, you may become mighty to grasp the idea, + +003:018 as it is grasped by all God's people, of the breadth and length, + the height and depth-- + +003:019 yes, to attain to a knowledge of the knowledge-surpassing love + of Christ, so that you may be made complete in accordance + with God's own standard of completeness. + +003:020 Now to Him who, in exercise of His power that is at work + within us, is able to do infinitely beyond all our highest + prayers or thoughts-- + +003:021 to Him be the glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus to + all generations, world without end! Amen. + +004:001 I, then, the prisoner for the Master's sake, entreat you + to live and act as becomes those who have received the call + that you have received-- + +004:002 with all lowliness of mind and unselfishness, and with patience, + bearing with one another lovingly, and earnestly + striving to maintain, + +004:003 in the uniting bond of peace, the unity given by the Spirit. + +004:004 There is but one body and but one Spirit, as also when you + were called you had one and the same hope held out to you. + +004:005 There is but one Lord, one faith, one baptism, + +004:006 and one God and Father of all, who rules over all, acts through all, + and dwells in all. + +004:007 Yet to each of us individually grace was given, measured out + with the munificence of Christ. + +004:008 For this reason Scripture says: "He re-ascended on high, + He led captive a host of captives, and gave gifts to men." + +004:009 (Now this "re-ascended"--what does it mean but that He had + first descended into the lower regions of the earth? + +004:010 He who descended is the same as He who ascended again far + above all the Heavens in order to fill the universe.) + +004:011 And He Himself appointed some to be Apostles, some to be Prophets, + some to be evangelists, some to be pastors and teachers, + +004:012 in order fully to equip His people for the work of serving-- + for the building up of Christ's body-- + +004:013 till we all of us arrive at oneness in faith and in the knowledge + of the Son of God, and at mature manhood and the stature + of full-grown men in Christ. + +004:014 So we shall no longer be babes nor shall we resemble mariners + tossed on the waves and carried about with every changing wind + of doctrine according to men's cleverness and unscrupulous cunning, + making use of every shifting device to mislead. + +004:015 But we shall lovingly hold to the truth, and shall in all respects + grow up into union with Him who is our Head, even Christ. + +004:016 Dependent on Him, the whole body--its various parts closely + fitting and firmly adhering to one another--grows by the aid + of every contributory link, with power proportioned to + the need of each individual part, so as to build itself up + in a spirit of love. + +004:017 Therefore I warn you, and I implore you in the name of the Master, + no longer to live as the Gentiles in their perverseness live, + +004:018 with darkened understandings, having by reason of the ignorance + which is deep-seated in them and the insensibility of their + moral nature, no share in the Life which God gives. + +004:019 Such men being past feeling have abandoned themselves to impurity, + greedily indulging in every kind of profligacy. + +004:020 But these are not the lessons which you have learned from Christ; + +004:021 if at least you have heard His voice and in Him have been taught-- + and this is true Christian teaching-- + +004:022 to put away, in regard to your former mode of life, + your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits + its misleading impulses, + +004:023 and to get yourselves renewed in the temper of your minds + and clothe yourselves + +004:024 with that new and better self which has been created to resemble + God in the righteousness and holiness which come from the truth. + +004:025 For this reason, laying aside falsehood, every one of you should + speak the truth to his fellow man; for we are, as it were, + parts of one another. + +004:026 If angry, beware of sinning. Let not your irritation last until + the sun goes down; + +004:027 and do not leave room for the Devil. + +004:028 He who has been a thief must steal no more, but, instead of that, + should work with his own hands in honest industry, so that + he may have something of which he can give the needy a share. + +004:029 Let no unwholesome words ever pass your lips, but let all your + words be good for benefiting others according to the need + of the moment, so that they may be a means of blessing + to the hearers. + +004:030 And beware of grieving the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you + have been sealed in preparation for the day of Redemption. + +004:031 Let all bitterness and all passionate feeling, all anger + and loud insulting language, be unknown among you-- + and also every kind of malice. + +004:032 On the contrary learn to be kind to one another, tender-hearted, + forgiving one another, just as God in Christ has also forgiven you. + +005:001 Therefore be imitators of God, as His dear children. + +005:002 And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave + Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice + to God, yielding a fragrant odor. + +005:003 But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, + let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought + not to be named among God's people. + +005:004 Avoid shameful and foolish talk and low jesting--they are all + alike discreditable--and in place of these give thanks. + +005:005 For be well assured that no fornicator or immoral person + and no money-grubber--or in other words idol-worshipper-- + has any share awaiting him in the Kingdom of Christ and of God. + +005:006 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is on account + of these very sins that God's anger is coming upon the disobedient. + +005:007 Therefore do not become sharers with them. + +005:008 There was a time when you were nothing but darkness. + Now, as Christians, you are Light itself. + +005:009 Live and act as sons of Light--for the effect of the Light + is seen in every kind of goodness, uprightness and truth-- + +005:010 and learn in your own experiences what is fully pleasing + to the Lord. + +005:011 Have nothing to do with the barren unprofitable deeds + of darkness, but, instead of that, set your faces against them; + +005:012 for the things which are done by these people in secret it + is disgraceful even to speak of. + +005:013 But everything can be tested by the light and thus be shown + in its true colors; for whatever shines of itself is light. + +005:014 For this reason it is said, "Rise, sleeper; rise from among + the dead, and Christ will shed light upon you." + +005:015 Therefore be very careful how you live and act. + Let it not be as unwise men, but as wise. + +005:016 Buy up your opportunities, for these are evil times. + +005:017 On this account do not prove yourselves wanting in sense, + but try to understand what the Lord's will is. + +005:018 Do not over-indulge in wine--a thing in which excess is so easy-- + +005:019 but drink deeply of God's Spirit. Speak to one another with + psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and offer praise + in your hearts to the Lord. + +005:020 Always and for everything let your thanks to God the Father + be presented in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; + +005:021 and submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. + +005:022 Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord; + +005:023 because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head + of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body. + +005:024 And just as the Church submits to Christ, so also married + women should be entirely submissive to their husbands. + +005:025 Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church + and gave Himself up to death for her; + +005:026 in order to make her holy, cleansing her with the baptismal + water by the word, + +005:027 that He might present the Church to Himself a glorious bride, + without spot or wrinkle or any other defect, but to be + holy and unblemished. + +005:028 So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they + love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself. + +005:029 For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary + he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and + cherishes the Church; + +005:030 because we are, as it were, parts of His Body. + +005:031 "For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother + and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one." + +005:032 That is a great truth hitherto kept secret: I mean the truth + concerning Christ and the Church. + +005:033 Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own + wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman + see to it that she treats her husband with respect. + +006:001 Children, be obedient to your parents as a Christian duty, + for it is a duty. + +006:002 "Honour your father and your mother"--this is the first + Commandment which has a promise added to it-- + +006:003 "so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long + on the earth." + +006:004 And you, fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring + them up tenderly with true Christian training and advice. + +006:005 Slaves, be obedient to your earthly masters, with respect + and eager anxiety to please and with simplicity of motive + as if you were obeying Christ. + +006:006 Let it not be in acts of eye-service as if you had but to + please men, but as Christ's bondservants who are doing God's + will from the heart. + +006:007 With right good will, be faithful to your duty as service + rendered to the Lord and not to man. + +006:008 You well know that whatever right thing any one does, he will + receive a requital for it from the Lord, whether he is a slave + or a free man. + +006:009 And you masters, act towards your slaves on the same principles, + and refrain from threats. For you know that in Heaven there + is One who is your Master as well as theirs, and that merely + earthly distinctions there are none with Him. + +006:010 In conclusion, strengthen yourselves in the Lord and in the power + which His supreme might imparts. + +006:011 Put on the complete armour of God, so as to be able to stand + firm against all the stratagems of the Devil. + +006:012 For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, + but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control + and govern this dark world--the spiritual hosts of evil + arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare. + +006:013 Therefore put on the complete armour of God, so that you + may be able to stand your ground on the day of battle, and, + having fought to the end, to remain victors on the field. + +006:014 Stand therefore, first fastening round you the girdle of truth + and putting on the breastplate of uprightness + +006:015 as well as the shoes of the Good News of peace--a firm foundation + for your feet. + +006:016 And besides all these take the great shield of faith, + on which you will be able to quench all the flaming darts + of the Wicked one; + +006:017 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit + which is the word of God. + +006:018 Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting + occasion in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize + opportunities for doing so, with unwearied persistence + and entreaty on behalf of all God's people, + +006:019 and ask on my behalf that words may be given to me so that, + outspoken and fearless, I may make known the truths + (hitherto kept secret) of the Good News-- + +006:020 to spread which I am an ambassador in chains--so that when + telling them I may speak out boldly as I ought. + +006:021 But in order that you also may know how I am doing, Tychicus our + dearly-loved brother and faithful helper in the Lord's service + will tell you everything. + +006:022 I have sent him to you for the very purpose--that you may know + about us and that he may encourage you. + +006:023 Peace be to the brethren, and love combined with faith, + from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. + +006:024 May grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ + with perfect sincerity. + + + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Weymouth New Testament in Modern +Speech, Ephesians, by R. 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+001:004 even as, in His love, He chose us as His own in Christ before + the creation of the world, that we might be holy and without + blemish in His presence. +001:005 For He pre-destined us to be adopted by Himself as sons through + Jesus Christ--such being His gracious will and pleasure-- +001:006 to the praise of the splendour of His grace with which He has + enriched us in the beloved One. +001:007 It is in Him, and through the shedding of His blood, that we + have our deliverance--the forgiveness of our offences-- + so abundant was God's grace, +001:008 the grace which He, the possessor of all wisdom and understanding, + lavished upon us, +001:009 when He made known to us the secret of His will. + And this is in harmony with God's merciful purpose +001:010 for the government of the world when the times are ripe for it-- + the purpose which He has cherished in His own mind of restoring + the whole creation to find its one Head in Christ; yes, things in + Heaven and things on earth, to find their one Head in Him. +001:011 In Him we Jews have been made heirs, having been chosen + beforehand in accordance with the intention of Him whose + might carries out in everything the design of His own will, +001:012 so that we should be devoted to the extolling of His + glorious attributes--we who were the first to fix our + hopes on Christ. +001:013 And in Him you Gentiles also, after listening to the Message + of the truth, the Good News of your salvation--having believed + in Him--were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit; +001:014 that Spirit being a pledge and foretaste of our inheritance, + in anticipation of its full redemption--the inheritance + which He has purchased to be specially His for the extolling + of His glory. +001:015 For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus + which prevails among you, and of your love for all God's people, +001:016 offer never ceasing thanks on your behalf while I make mention + of you in my prayers. +001:017 For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ-- + the Father most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom + and penetration through an intimate knowledge of Him, +001:018 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened so that you + may know what is the hope which His call to you inspires, + what the wealth of the glory of His inheritance in God's people, +001:019 and what the transcendent greatness of His power in us believers + as seen in the working of His infinite might +001:020 when He displayed it in Christ by raising Him from the dead + and seating Him at His own right hand in the heavenly realms, +001:021 high above all other government and authority and power + and dominion, and every title of sovereignty used either + in this Age or in the Age to come. +001:022 God has put all things under His feet, and has appointed Him + universal and supreme Head of the Church, which is His Body, +001:023 the completeness of Him who everywhere fills the universe + with Himself. +002:001 To you Gentiles also, who were dead through your offences and sins, +002:002 which were once habitual to you while you walked in the ways + of this world and obeyed the Prince of the powers of the air, + the spirits that are now at work in the hearts of the sons + of disobedience--to you God has given Life. +002:003 Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by + the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings + of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our + original state deserving of anger like all others. +002:004 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love + which He bestowed on us, +002:005 caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live + with Christ--it is by grace that you have been saved-- +002:006 raised us with Him from the dead, and enthroned us with Him + in the heavenly realms as being in Christ Jesus, +002:007 in order that, by His goodness to us in Christ Jesus, He might + display in the Ages to come the transcendent riches of His grace. +002:008 For it is by grace that you have been saved through faith; + and that not of yourselves. It is God's gift, and is not on + the ground of merit-- +002:009 so that it may be impossible for any one to boast. +002:010 For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus + for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise. +002:011 Therefore, do not forget that formerly you were Gentiles as to + your bodily condition. You were called the Uncircumcision + by those who style themselves the Circumcised--their circumcision + being one which the knife has effected. +002:012 At that time you were living apart from Christ, estranged from + the Commonwealth of Israel, with no share by birth in the Covenants + which are based on the Promises, and you had no hope and no God, + in all the world. +002:013 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were so far away have been + brought near through the death of Christ. +002:014 For He is our peace--He who has made Jews and Gentiles one, and in + His own human nature has broken down the hostile dividing wall, +002:015 by setting aside the Law with its commandments, expressed, + as they were, in definite decrees. His design was to unite + the two sections of humanity in Himself so as to form + one new man, +002:016 thus effecting peace, and to reconcile Jews and Gentiles + in one body to God, by means of His cross--slaying by it + their mutual enmity. +002:017 So He came and proclaimed good news of peace to you who were + so far away, and peace to those who were near; +002:018 because it is through Him that Jews and Gentiles alike have + access through one Spirit to the Father. +002:019 You are therefore no longer mere foreigners or persons excluded + from civil rights. On the contrary you share citizenship + with God's people and are members of His family. +002:020 You are a building which has been reared on the foundation + of the Apostles and Prophets, the cornerstone being + Christ Jesus Himself, +002:021 in union with whom the whole fabric, fitted and closely + joined together, is growing so as to form a holy sanctuary + in the Lord; +002:022 in whom you also are being built up together to become a fixed + abode for God through the Spirit. +003:001 For this reason I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf + of you Gentiles-- +003:002 if, that is, you have heard of the work which God has graciously + entrusted to me for your benefit, +003:003 and that by a revelation the truth hitherto kept secret was made + known to me as I have already briefly explained it to you. +003:004 By means of that explanation, as you read it, you can judge + of my insight into the truth of Christ +003:005 which in earlier ages was not made known to the human race, + as it has now been revealed to His holy Apostles and Prophets + through the Spirit-- +003:006 I mean the truth that the Gentiles are joint heirs with us Jews, + and that they form one body with us, and have the same + interest as we have in the promise which has been made good + in Christ Jesus through the Good News, +003:007 in which I have been appointed to serve, in virtue of + the work which God, in the exercise of His power within me, + has graciously entrusted to me. +003:008 To me who am less than the least of all God's people has this + work been graciously entrusted--to proclaim to the Gentiles + the Good News of the exhaustless wealth of Christ, +003:009 and to show all men in a clear light what my stewardship is. + It is the stewardship of the truth which from all the Ages + lay concealed in the mind of God, the Creator of all things-- +003:010 concealed in order that the Church might now be used to + display to the powers and authorities in the heavenly realms + the innumerable aspects of God's wisdom. +003:011 Such was the eternal purpose which He had formed in + Christ Jesus our Lord, +003:012 in whom we have this bold and confident access through our + faith in Him. +003:013 Therefore I entreat you not to lose heart in the midst of my + sufferings on your behalf, for they bring you honour. +003:014 For this reason, on bended knee I beseech the Father, +003:015 from whom the whole family in Heaven and on earth derives its name, +003:016 to grant you--in accordance with the wealth of His + glorious perfections--to be strengthened by His Spirit + with power penetrating to your inmost being. +003:017 I pray that Christ may make His home in your hearts through + your faith; so that having your roots deep and your foundations + strong, in love, you may become mighty to grasp the idea, +003:018 as it is grasped by all God's people, of the breadth and length, + the height and depth-- +003:019 yes, to attain to a knowledge of the knowledge-surpassing love + of Christ, so that you may be made complete in accordance + with God's own standard of completeness. +003:020 Now to Him who, in exercise of His power that is at work + within us, is able to do infinitely beyond all our highest + prayers or thoughts-- +003:021 to Him be the glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus to + all generations, world without end! Amen. +004:001 I, then, the prisoner for the Master's sake, entreat you + to live and act as becomes those who have received the call + that you have received-- +004:002 with all lowliness of mind and unselfishness, and with patience, + bearing with one another lovingly, and earnestly + striving to maintain, +004:003 in the uniting bond of peace, the unity given by the Spirit. +004:004 There is but one body and but one Spirit, as also when you + were called you had one and the same hope held out to you. +004:005 There is but one Lord, one faith, one baptism, +004:006 and one God and Father of all, who rules over all, acts through all, + and dwells in all. +004:007 Yet to each of us individually grace was given, measured out + with the munificence of Christ. +004:008 For this reason Scripture says: "He re-ascended on high, + He led captive a host of captives, and gave gifts to men." +004:009 (Now this "re-ascended"--what does it mean but that He had + first descended into the lower regions of the earth? +004:010 He who descended is the same as He who ascended again far + above all the Heavens in order to fill the universe.) +004:011 And He Himself appointed some to be Apostles, some to be Prophets, + some to be evangelists, some to be pastors and teachers, +004:012 in order fully to equip His people for the work of serving-- + for the building up of Christ's body-- +004:013 till we all of us arrive at oneness in faith and in the knowledge + of the Son of God, and at mature manhood and the stature + of full-grown men in Christ. +004:014 So we shall no longer be babes nor shall we resemble mariners + tossed on the waves and carried about with every changing wind + of doctrine according to men's cleverness and unscrupulous cunning, + making use of every shifting device to mislead. +004:015 But we shall lovingly hold to the truth, and shall in all respects + grow up into union with Him who is our Head, even Christ. +004:016 Dependent on Him, the whole body--its various parts closely + fitting and firmly adhering to one another--grows by the aid + of every contributory link, with power proportioned to + the need of each individual part, so as to build itself up + in a spirit of love. +004:017 Therefore I warn you, and I implore you in the name of the Master, + no longer to live as the Gentiles in their perverseness live, +004:018 with darkened understandings, having by reason of the ignorance + which is deep-seated in them and the insensibility of their + moral nature, no share in the Life which God gives. +004:019 Such men being past feeling have abandoned themselves to impurity, + greedily indulging in every kind of profligacy. +004:020 But these are not the lessons which you have learned from Christ; +004:021 if at least you have heard His voice and in Him have been taught-- + and this is true Christian teaching-- +004:022 to put away, in regard to your former mode of life, + your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits + its misleading impulses, +004:023 and to get yourselves renewed in the temper of your minds + and clothe yourselves +004:024 with that new and better self which has been created to resemble + God in the righteousness and holiness which come from the truth. +004:025 For this reason, laying aside falsehood, every one of you should + speak the truth to his fellow man; for we are, as it were, + parts of one another. +004:026 If angry, beware of sinning. Let not your irritation last until + the sun goes down; +004:027 and do not leave room for the Devil. +004:028 He who has been a thief must steal no more, but, instead of that, + should work with his own hands in honest industry, so that + he may have something of which he can give the needy a share. +004:029 Let no unwholesome words ever pass your lips, but let all your + words be good for benefiting others according to the need + of the moment, so that they may be a means of blessing + to the hearers. +004:030 And beware of grieving the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you + have been sealed in preparation for the day of Redemption. +004:031 Let all bitterness and all passionate feeling, all anger + and loud insulting language, be unknown among you-- + and also every kind of malice. +004:032 On the contrary learn to be kind to one another, tender-hearted, + forgiving one another, just as God in Christ has also forgiven you. +005:001 Therefore be imitators of God, as His dear children. +005:002 And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave + Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice + to God, yielding a fragrant odor. +005:003 But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, + let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought + not to be named among God's people. +005:004 Avoid shameful and foolish talk and low jesting--they are all + alike discreditable--and in place of these give thanks. +005:005 For be well assured that no fornicator or immoral person + and no money-grubber--or in other words idol-worshipper-- + has any share awaiting him in the Kingdom of Christ and of God. +005:006 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is on account + of these very sins that God's anger is coming upon the disobedient. +005:007 Therefore do not become sharers with them. +005:008 There was a time when you were nothing but darkness. + Now, as Christians, you are Light itself. +005:009 Live and act as sons of Light--for the effect of the Light + is seen in every kind of goodness, uprightness and truth-- +005:010 and learn in your own experiences what is fully pleasing + to the Lord. +005:011 Have nothing to do with the barren unprofitable deeds + of darkness, but, instead of that, set your faces against them; +005:012 for the things which are done by these people in secret it + is disgraceful even to speak of. +005:013 But everything can be tested by the light and thus be shown + in its true colors; for whatever shines of itself is light. +005:014 For this reason it is said, "Rise, sleeper; rise from among + the dead, and Christ will shed light upon you." +005:015 Therefore be very careful how you live and act. + Let it not be as unwise men, but as wise. +005:016 Buy up your opportunities, for these are evil times. +005:017 On this account do not prove yourselves wanting in sense, + but try to understand what the Lord's will is. +005:018 Do not over-indulge in wine--a thing in which excess is so easy-- +005:019 but drink deeply of God's Spirit. Speak to one another with + psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and offer praise + in your hearts to the Lord. +005:020 Always and for everything let your thanks to God the Father + be presented in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; +005:021 and submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. +005:022 Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord; +005:023 because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head + of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body. +005:024 And just as the Church submits to Christ, so also married + women should be entirely submissive to their husbands. +005:025 Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church + and gave Himself up to death for her; +005:026 in order to make her holy, cleansing her with the baptismal + water by the word, +005:027 that He might present the Church to Himself a glorious bride, + without spot or wrinkle or any other defect, but to be + holy and unblemished. +005:028 So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they + love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself. +005:029 For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary + he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and + cherishes the Church; +005:030 because we are, as it were, parts of His Body. +005:031 "For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother + and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one." +005:032 That is a great truth hitherto kept secret: I mean the truth + concerning Christ and the Church. +005:033 Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own + wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman + see to it that she treats her husband with respect. +006:001 Children, be obedient to your parents as a Christian duty, + for it is a duty. +006:002 "Honour your father and your mother"--this is the first + Commandment which has a promise added to it-- +006:003 "so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long + on the earth." +006:004 And you, fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring + them up tenderly with true Christian training and advice. +006:005 Slaves, be obedient to your earthly masters, with respect + and eager anxiety to please and with simplicity of motive + as if you were obeying Christ. +006:006 Let it not be in acts of eye-service as if you had but to + please men, but as Christ's bondservants who are doing God's + will from the heart. +006:007 With right good will, be faithful to your duty as service + rendered to the Lord and not to man. +006:008 You well know that whatever right thing any one does, he will + receive a requital for it from the Lord, whether he is a slave + or a free man. +006:009 And you masters, act towards your slaves on the same principles, + and refrain from threats. For you know that in Heaven there + is One who is your Master as well as theirs, and that merely + earthly distinctions there are none with Him. +006:010 In conclusion, strengthen yourselves in the Lord and in the power + which His supreme might imparts. +006:011 Put on the complete armour of God, so as to be able to stand + firm against all the stratagems of the Devil. +006:012 For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, + but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control + and govern this dark world--the spiritual hosts of evil + arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare. +006:013 Therefore put on the complete armour of God, so that you + may be able to stand your ground on the day of battle, and, + having fought to the end, to remain victors on the field. +006:014 Stand therefore, first fastening round you the girdle of truth + and putting on the breastplate of uprightness +006:015 as well as the shoes of the Good News of peace--a firm foundation + for your feet. +006:016 And besides all these take the great shield of faith, + on which you will be able to quench all the flaming darts + of the Wicked one; +006:017 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit + which is the word of God. +006:018 Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting + occasion in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize + opportunities for doing so, with unwearied persistence + and entreaty on behalf of all God's people, +006:019 and ask on my behalf that words may be given to me so that, + outspoken and fearless, I may make known the truths + (hitherto kept secret) of the Good News-- +006:020 to spread which I am an ambassador in chains--so that when + telling them I may speak out boldly as I ought. +006:021 But in order that you also may know how I am doing, Tychicus our + dearly-loved brother and faithful helper in the Lord's service + will tell you everything. +006:022 I have sent him to you for the very purpose--that you may know + about us and that he may encourage you. +006:023 Peace be to the brethren, and love combined with faith, + from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +006:024 May grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ + with perfect sincerity. + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Ephesians *** + +This file should be named wnt1010.txt or wnt1010.zip +Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new NUMBER, wnt1011.txt +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, wnt1010a.txt + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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