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1 Scroll 39 Epistle to the Ephesians.
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the Saints who being in Ephesus,
and to the faithful in Christ Jesus.

2 Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Who having blessed us with every spiritual blessing in Heavenly places in Christ:

4 according as He has chosen us in Him, before the foundation of the World,
that we to be Holy and blameless before Him in love:

5 having predestinated us to adoption through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,

6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He has made us favoured in the Beloved:

7 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of trespasses, according to the richness of His grace;

8 in which He has abounded towards us in all wisdom and prudence;

9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself:

10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of times He to recapitulate all things in Christ,
both which are in the Heavens, and which are upon the Earth; in Him:

11 in whom also we were obtained an inheritance,
being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who works all things after the counsel of His own will:

12 for us to be in praise of His glory, who first trusted in Christ;

13 in whom ye also having heard the word of the truth, the Gospel of your Salvation:
in whom also ye having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

14 which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

15 Therefore I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love to all the Saints,

16 cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory,
may give to you the Spirit of Wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him:

18 having enlightened the eyes by your understanding; for you to know what is the hope of His calling,
and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the Saints,

19 and what is the exceedingly greatness of His power towards us that believing, according to the working of the power of His might,

20 which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the Heavenly places,

21 far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that being named,
not only in this Age[World], but also in that which is to come:

22 and put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the Church,

23 which is His body, the fullness of Him that fills all in all.

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1 And you being dead in trespasses and sins;

2 in which in time past ye walked according to the course of this Age of the World,
according to the ruler of the power of the air[Satan], the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience:

3 among whom also we all had our manner of life in times past in the lusts of our flesh,
doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

4 But God, who being rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us,

5 even when we being dead in offences, has made us alive together with Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved).

6 And has raised us up together, and made us sit together in Heavenly places, in Christ Jesus:

7 that in the Ages to come He might show the exceeding richness of His grace in His kindness towards us, in Christ Jesus.

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For by grace ye are having been saved, through the faith; Jas 2:14-24
and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of GOD:

9 not by works, lest anyone may boast.

10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works,
which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.

11 Therefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh,
who being called Uncircumcision by that which being called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

12 that at that time ye were without Christ, alienated from the Citizenship of Israel,
and strangers from the Covenants of Promise, having no hope, and godless in the World:

13 but now, in Christ Jesus, ye, who formerly being far off, became near by the blood of Christ.

14 For He is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition;

15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the Law of Commandments contained in decrees:
that He might in Himself create the two into one new man, making peace;

16 and that He might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having by it slain the enmity:

17 and having come and preached the Gospel of Peace to you who were afar off, and to them that were near.

18 For through Him we both have an access by One Spirit to the Father.

19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners,
but fellow-citizens with the Saints, and of the household of God;

20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner-stone;

21 in whom all the building being fitly joined together,
grows to a Holy Temple in the Lord:

22 in whom ye also are built together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

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1 For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,

2 if indeed ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given me on your account.

3 That by revelation He made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in few words;

4 by which when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ,

5 which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men,
as it is now revealed to His Holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

6 that the Gentiles to be joint-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ by the Gospel:

7 of which I became a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God was given to me by the working of His power.

8 To me, who am less than the least of all Saints,
is this grace was given, that I should preach the Gospel among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

9 and enlighten all to see what is the fellowship of the mystery,
that has been hid from the Ages in God, who having created all things by Jesus Christ:

10 to the intent that now to the principalities and authorities in Heavenly places might be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of GOD,

11 according to the purpose of Ages which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

12 in whom we have boldness and access in confidence by the faith of Him,

13 therefore I desire that ye not to weary at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

14 For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

15 of whom the whole family in Heavens and Earth is named,

16 that He would grant you according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man;

17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith;

18 that ye, having been rooted and having been founded in love,
may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and heights.

19 And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fullness of God.

20 Now to Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that working in us.

21 To Him be the glory in the Church in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever, Amen!

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1 Therefore I beseech you, as the prisoner of the Lord, that ye walk worthy of the vocation by which ye are called,

2 with all lowliness and meekness, with endurance, forbearing one another in love;

3 endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

4 There is one body, and One Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism;

6 One GOD and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

7 But to every one of us was given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

8 Therefore He says,
When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men. Psa 68:18

9 Now that He ascended, what is it except that He also descended first into the lower parts of the Earth?

10 He who having descended is the same also that ascended far above all the Heavens, that He might fill all things.

11 And He gave some apostles; and some prophets; and some evangelists; and some shepherds[pastors] and teachers;

12 for the perfecting of the Saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

13 until we may all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:

14 that we henceforth may be no more children, tossed back and forth, and carried about with every wind of doctrine,
by the sleight of men, and by their craftiness after the wiles of deceive:

15 but telling the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, who is the head, the Christ[Messiah]:

16 from whom the whole body being fitly joined together and being compacted by that which every joint supply,
according to the working in one measure of every part, makes increase of the body to the edifying of itself in love.

17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

18 having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that being in them, because of the hardness of their heart:

19 who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with covetousness.

20 But ye have not so learned Christ;

21 if indeed ye have heard Him, and were taught in Him, as the truth is in Jesus:

22 for you to put off concerning the former behaviour of the old man, which being corrupted according to the deceitful lusts:

23 and be renewed in the spirit of your minds;

24 and you to put on the new man, which after God was created in righteousness and Holiness of the truth.

25 Therefore putting away lying, speak ye every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Zec 8:16

26 Be ye angry, and sin not: Psa 4:4
let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

27 neither give place to the devil.

28 Let him that stealing steal no more: but rather let him labour,
working with his hands the thing which is good,
that he may have to give to him that needs.

29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth,
but if any is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers.

30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed to the day of redemption.

31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

32 and be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.

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1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as beloved children;

2 and walk in love, as Christ also has loved us,
and gave Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.

3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness,
let it not be once named among you, as becomes Saints;

4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not fitting: but rather thanksgiving.

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For this ye are knowing, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous,
who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.

6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

7 Be ye not therefore partakers with them.

8 For ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as Children of Light;

9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth);

10 proving what is acceptable to the Lord.

11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.

13 But all things that being reproved, are made manifest by the light: for whatever is manifested is light.

14 Therefore He says,
Awake, Thou that sleep,
and arise from the dead,
and the Christ[Messiah] will give Thee Light.

15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

17 Therefore be ye not foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

18 And be not drunk with wine, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

19 speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and singing-psalms in your heart to the Lord,

20 giving thanks always for all things, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father.

21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

23 For the husband is the head of the wife,
even as the Christ[Messiah] is the head of the Church: and He is the Saviour of the body.

24 But as the Church is subject to Christ, so let wives be to their own husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your own wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself for her;

26 that He might sanctify and having cleansed her with the washing of water by the word,

27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle,
or any such thing; but that she should be Holy and blameless.

28 So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies. He who loving his wife, loves himself;

29 for no one ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the Church:

30 for we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.

31 Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be cleave to his wife,
and they two shall be one flesh. Gen 2:24

32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.

33 Nevertheless let also every one of you in particular: so love his wife as himself:
and the wife see that she may reverence the husband.

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Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

2 Honour Thy father and Thy mother; (which is the first Commandment with promise) Exo 20:12 Deu 5:16

3 that it may be well with Thee, and Thou will be live long on the land. Exo 20:12 Deu 5:16

4 And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with reverence and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

6 not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul;

7 with benevolence serving, as to the Lord, and not to men:

8 Knowing that whatsoever each may have done good, the same shall receive from the Lord, whether slave or free.

9 and ye lords, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening:
knowing that your Lord also is in Heavens; neither is there respect of persons[favouritism] with Him.

10 Finally, my brethren, be strengthened in the Lord, and in the power of His might.

11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against authorities, against the rulers of the darkness of this Age[World],
against spiritual things of wickedness in heavenly places.

13 Therefore take to you the whole armour of God,
that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having wrought all, to stand.

14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having put on the Breast-plate of Righteousness; Isa 59:17

15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace;

16 above all, having taken the Shield of Faith, with which ye will be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the Evil.

17 And to receive the Helmet of Salvation, and the Sword of the Spirit, which is the word of GOD: Isa 59:17

18 By all prayer and supplication praying in all time in Spirit,
and watching for this same purpose with all perseverance and supplication for all Saints;

19 and for me, that utterance may be given to me,
that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the Gospel,

20 for which I am an ambassador in bonds: that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

21 But that ye may know also my affairs, and will make all things known to you:
How I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord,

22 whom I have sent to you for this same purpose, that ye may know our affairs, and he may comfort your hearts.

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Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith from God the Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

24 Grace be with all them that loving our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption. Amen!