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10 The one who descended is also the one who ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

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12 to equip the holy ones for the work of ministry,[a] for building up the body of Christ,

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Footnotes

  1. 4:12 The ministerial leaders in Eph 4:11 are to equip the whole people of God for their work of ministry.

so we, though many, are one body in Christ[a] and individually parts of one another.

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  1. 12:5 One body in Christ: on the church as the body of Christ, see 1 Cor 12:12–27.

27 Now you are Christ’s body, and individually parts of it.(A)

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19 For in him all the fullness[a] was pleased to dwell,

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  1. 1:19 Fullness: in gnostic usage this term referred to a spiritual world of beings above, between God and the world; many later interpreters take it to refer to the fullness of the deity (Col 2:9); the reference could also be to the fullness of grace (cf. Jn 1:16).