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Ephesians 4:1 ESV

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

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Ephesians 4:2 ESV

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

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eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Ephesians 4:4 ESV

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

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one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Ephesians 4:6 ESV

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

Ephesians 4:7 ESV

But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.

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Measured Out By The Determinate Source

Ephesians 4:8 ESV

Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”

Ephesians 4:9 ESV

(In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth?

Ephesians 4:10 ESV

He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)

Ephesians 4:11 ESV

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,

Ephesians 4:12 ESV

to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

Ephesians 4:13 ESV

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Ephesians 4:14 ESV

so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

Ephesians 4:15 ESV

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,