Ephesians 4 - Evangelical Heritage Version - 2021（EHV）

Members of Christ's Body

1As a prisoner in the Lord, therefore, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called.

2Live with all humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another in love.

3Make every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

4There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in the one hope of your calling.

5There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

6one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.

7But to each one of us grace was given, according to the measure of the gift from Christ.

8That is why it says, “When he ascended on high, he took captivity captive and gave gifts to his people.” to the lower parts, namely, the earth?

10He who descended is the same one who ascended far above all the heavens, so that he would fill all things.

11He himself gave the apostles, as well as the prophets, as well as the evangelists, as well as the pastors and teachers,

12for the purpose of training the saints for the work of serving, in order to build up the body of Christ.

13This is to continue until we all reach unity in the faith and knowledge of the Son of God, resulting in a mature man with a stature reaching to the measure of the fullness of Christ.

14The goal is that we would no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, when people use tricks and invent clever ways to lead us astray.

15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we would in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

16From him the whole body, being joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows in accordance with Christ's activity when he measured out each individual part. He causes the growth of the body so that it builds itself up in love.

Living Changed Lives

17So I tell you this and testify to it in the Lord: Do not walk any longer as the Gentiles walk, in their futile way of thinking.

18They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, due to the hardness of their hearts.

19Because they have no sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality, with an ever-increasing desire to practice every kind of impurity.

20But you did not learn Christ in that way,

21if indeed you have heard of him and were taught in him (since the truth is in Jesus).

22As far as your former way of life is concerned, you were taught to take off the old self, which is corrupted by its deceitful desires,

23and to be renewed continually in the spirit of your mind,

24and to put on the new self, which has been created to be like God in righteousness and true holiness.

25Therefore, after you put away lying, let each of you speak truthfully with your neighbor, because we are all members of one body.

26“Be angry, yet do not sin.”