Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Ephesians
Weymouth, Richard Francis, 1822-1902
English
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Book 49 Ephesians
001:001 Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God: To God's
people who are in Ephesus--believers in Christ Jesus.
001:002 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has crowned us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly
realms in Christ;
001:004 even as, in His love, He chose us as His own in Christ before
the creation of the world, that we might be holy and without
blemish in His presence.
001:005 For He pre-destined us to be adopted by Himself as sons through
Jesus Christ--such being His gracious will and pleasure--
001:006 to the praise of the splendour of His grace with which He has
enriched us in the beloved One.
001:007 It is in Him, and through the shedding of His blood, that we
have our deliverance--the forgiveness of our offences--
so abundant was God's grace,
001:008 the grace which He, the possessor of all wisdom and understanding,
lavished upon us,
001:009 when He made known to us the secret of His will.
And this is in harmony with God's merciful purpose
001:010 for the government of the world when the times are ripe for it--
the purpose which He has cherished in His own mind of restoring
the whole creation to find its one Head in Christ; yes, things in
Heaven and things on earth, to find their one Head in Him.
001:011 In Him we Jews have been made heirs, having been chosen
beforehand in accordance with the intention of Him whose
might carries out in everything the design of His own will,
001:012 so that we should be devoted to the extolling of His
glorious attributes--we who were the first to fix our
hopes on Christ.
001:013 And in Him you Gentiles also, after listening to the Message
of the truth, the Good News of your salvation--having believed
in Him--were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit;
001:014 that Spirit being a pledge and foretaste of our inheritance,
in anticipation of its full redemption--the inheritance
which He has purchased to be specially His for the extolling
of His glory.
001:015 For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus
which prevails among you, and of your love for all God's people,
001:016 offer never ceasing thanks on your behalf while I make mention
of you in my prayers.
001:017 For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ--
the Father most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom
and penetration through an intimate knowledge of Him,
001:018 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened so that you
may know what is the hope which His call to you inspires,
what the wealth of the glory of His inheritance in God's people,
001:019 and what the transcendent greatness of His power in us believers
as seen in the working of His infinite might
001:020 when He displayed it in Christ by raising Him from the dead
and seating Him at His own right hand in the heavenly realms,
001:021 high above all other government and authority and power
and dominion, and every title of sovereignty used either
in this Age or in the Age to come.
001:022 God has put all things under His feet, and has appointed Him
universal and supreme Head of the Church, which is His Body,
001:023 the completeness of Him who everywhere fills the universe
with Himself.
002:001 To you Gentiles also, who were dead through your offences and sins,
002:002 which were once habitual to you while you walked in the ways
of this world and obeyed the Prince of the powers of the air,
the spirits that are now at work in the hearts of the sons
of disobedience--to you God has given Life.
002:003 Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by
the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings
of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our
original state deserving of anger like all others.
002:004 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love
which He bestowed on us,
002:005 caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live
with Christ--it is by grace that you have been saved--
002:006 raised us with Him from the dead, and enthroned us with Him
in the heavenly realms as being in Christ Jesus,
002:007 in order that, by His goodness to us in Christ Jesus, He might
display in the Ages to come the transcendent riches of His grace.
002:008 For it is by grace that you have been saved through faith;
and that not of yourselves. It is God's gift, and is not on
the ground of merit--
002:009 so that it may be impossible for any one to boast.
002:010 For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus
for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.
002:011 Therefore, do not forget that formerly you were Gentiles as to
your bodily condition. You were called the Uncircumcision
by those who style themselves the Circumcised--their circumcision
being one which the knife has effected.
002:012 At that time you were living apart from Christ, estranged from
the Commonwealth of Israel, with no share by birth in the Covenants
which are based on the Promises, and you had no hope and no God,
in all the world.
002:013 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were so far away have been
brought near through the death of Christ.
002:014 For He is our peace--He who has made Jews and Gentiles one, and in
His own human nature has broken down the hostile dividing wall,
002:015 by setting aside the Law with its commandments, expressed,
as they were, in definite decrees. His design was to unite
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