Suosittuja jakeita Raamatun kirjasta Ephesians 4

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Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.

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

You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it may give grace to those who hear.

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.

Be angry and do not sin ; do not let the sun go down on the cause of your anger. Do not give the devil an opportunity.

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires, to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image – in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth.

making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

It was he who gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God – a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature.

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes. But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.