Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Ephesians 4:14-16

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. 

Then we will no longer be infants 
1 Corinthians 14:20  Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults.

tossed back and forth by the waves 
Isaiah 57:20  But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud.
James 1:6  But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming 
Ephesians 6:11  Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.

Instead, speaking the truth in love 
Ephesians 4:2  Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Ephesians 4:16  From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
Ephesians 1:4-5  For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will--...

we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ 
Ephesians 1:22-23  And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.

From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows 
Colossians 2:19  They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.

and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work 
1 Corinthians 12:7  Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.

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