Ephesians 4:15-17
1599 Geneva Bible
15 [a]But let us follow the truth in love, and in all things, grow up into him, which is the head, that is, Christ.
16 By whom all the body being coupled and knit together by every joint, for the furniture thereof (according to the [b]effectual power, which is in the measure of every part) receiveth [c]increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in [d]love.
17 [e]This I say therefore and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as (A)other Gentiles walk, in [f]vanity of their mind.
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- Ephesians 4:15 By earnest affection of the truth and love, we grow up into Christ: for he (being effectual by the ministry of his word, which as the vital spirit doth so quicken the whole body, that it nourisheth all the limbs thereof according to the measure and proportion of each one) quickeneth and cherisheth his Church, which consisteth of divers functions, as of divers members, and preserveth the proportion of every one. And thereof it followeth that neither this body can live without Christ, neither can any man grow up spiritually, which separateth himself from the other members.
- Ephesians 4:16 Of Christ, who in manner of the soul, quickeneth all the members.
- Ephesians 4:16 Such increase as is meet the body should have.
- Ephesians 4:16 Charity is the knitting of the limbs together.
- Ephesians 4:17 He descendeth to the fruits of Christian doctrine, and reasoneth first upon the principles of manners and actions, setting down a most grave comparison between the children of God, and them which are not regenerate. For in these men, all the powers of the mind are corrupted and their mind is given to vanity, and their senses are darkened with most gross mistiness, and their affections are so accustomed by little and little to wickedness, that at length they run headlong into all uncleanness, being utterly destitute of all judgment.
- Ephesians 4:17 If the noblest parts of the soul be corrupt, what is man but corruption only?
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