Ephesians 4:7-11
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But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
Therefore it says, “When He ascended on high, He led captive a host of captives, And He gave gifts to men.”
(Now this expression, “He ascended,” what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth?
He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things.)
And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,
But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith;
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.
For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.
But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.
Therefore it says, “When He ascended on high, He led captive a host of captives, And He gave gifts to men.”
(Now this expression, “He ascended,” what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth?
He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things.)
which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,
Therefore it says, “When He ascended on high, He led captive a host of captives, And He gave gifts to men.”
(Now this expression, “He ascended,” what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth?
He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things.)
For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
Therefore it says, “When He ascended on high, He led captive a host of captives, And He gave gifts to men.”
And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,
having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,
And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,
