Ephesians Chapter 4 (New Translation JWET)

Paul’s Letter to those of Magic City

Chapter 4

¹Therefore, I am summoning you (I, the captive by Lord-Master) to live worthily of the summons (of this you have been summoned) ² in complete humility and gentleness with patience having been sustained by one another with love, ³paying serious attention to preserve the union (from the Spirit) with the peace’s binding ⁴(one body and one Spirit) even as also you were summoned with one reason to believe your summons; ⁵(one Lord-Master, one faith-trust, one baptism, ⁶one God-Authority even Father-Author of everyone, the One over everyone and between everyone and within everyone) ⁷ but to each one of us it was given, a grant made in legal form (towards the measure of content of the Anointed's granted estate-gift).

⁸On whose account it says, "Having ascended to grandeur, He took prisoner a body of captives, to have given gifts to mankind." ⁹But, the One ascended. How is it, if not that also He descended to the earth's less prestigious district? ¹⁰The One Himself having descended is also the One having ascended above everyone of the universe, so that He could have paid in full everyone.

¹¹Also, He assigned envoys-sent ones: the ones who speak or interpret the will of God, the ones who proclaim the good news, the ones who shepherd and other teachers—¹²for the purpose of the restoration of the ones devoted to God, for deeds of a body of attendants, for the Anointed's whole household ¹³until we might have arrived (everyone into the union of trust-faith even from the full knowledge of God's Son) to a "man's estate of majority" from Anointed's completeness. ¹⁴So that we no longer might be childish (being tossed like waves and being turned round to every quarter, from the instruction by men's roll of the dice, from the imposture's wiliness) ¹⁵but arriving at the truth because of love we might have been added into Him (to all the ones this One is the source, Anointed One). ¹⁶From this One you all (the body) to be fitted together, even being reconciled because of everyone gripping a provision (according to cosmic force by each one's measure of growth) from the whole being brought into existence (into His structure by love-charity). ¹⁷This one thing certainly I am saying, even I might have been called by Lord-Master to invoke, "You no further live as the peoples living with purposelessness of their perception" ¹⁸(having been blinded by existing intellectual capacity) being separated from God's existence because of their ignorance, because of the obtuseness of their heart. ¹⁹Those having no longer felt pain for one another they taught a doctrine (for the wanton violence) to everyone's depravity (a work in their arrogance). ²⁰But you never in this manner learned the Anointed One. ²¹So be that you were a pupil, even by Him you were taught in what manner reality exists in the Savior. ²²To have put away from yourself, in accordance with the former confusion from the old corrupted man according to the objects of desire of the deceitful one, ²³but to be revived for your intellect's spirit ²⁴and to have clothed the new nobility, the one from God having been established by righteousness and truth's holiness. ²⁵On that account, having put away fallacies, you must speak truth, (each one with his neighbor) so that we are mutually in tune. ²⁶You yourselves were provoking to anger and you must not sin. The sun must not set upon your provocation ²⁷nor must you tender a part of body to the enemy [devil]. ²⁸The one stealing must not be stealing, but he must toil exceedingly, laboring with his own hands good things, so that he might have in order to share to the hand to possess. ²⁹Every rotten word must not go forth from your mouth, but if anything good for building, for the advantage, in that it may have given favor to the ones hearing. ³⁰Also you must not cause pain to God's Holy Spirit, by this One you were authenticated as real towards a day of redemption through a payment of ransom. ³¹Every bitterness and inclination and natural impulse (even shouting and profane speech) must be put an end from you (together with every cowardice). ³²But you must be made into mutually beneficial ones, compassionate towards each other even as God by Anointed One gave graciously to you.