Translation of Ephesians

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Lionel Windsor

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9 months ago

Lift Your Eyes is a series of reflections covering every sentence in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. In each reflection, I take a short portion from the letter, provide a translation, describe what it’s saying, and reflect on what it means for our lives and our relationships with others. As you read Ephesians, it is my prayer that Paul’s letter will lift your eyes, raise your sights, and help you to stand. The reflections will be published twice a week starting 25 January 2019 and finishing in September 2019.

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Translation of Ephesians

Lift Your Eyes Archives - Forget the Channel

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5 years ago

Translation of Ephesians

This is the
complete translation of the Apostle Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians for the
series Lift Your Eyes:
Reflections on Ephesians. The English text was translated directly from
the Greek (Nestle-Aland text) by Lionel Windsor.

To read or listen to the relevant reflection in the series Lift Your Eyes, click on any verse number in the text below (i.e. the small numbers in superscript). There are 70 reflections in total, including the Introduction.

Chapter 1:1a
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God. 1b
To the holy ones—those who are
also believers in Christ Jesus. 2 Grace
to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 Blessed
is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every
spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, in Christ! 4
For he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and
blameless in his presence; in love 5
he predetermined that we should be adopted through Jesus Christ for himself,
according to the pleasure of his will, 6a
to the praise of the glory of his grace. 6b
He has given us this grace in the one he dearly loves. 7
In him, we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offenses,
according to the riches of his grace. 8
God lavished his grace on us, in all wisdom and understanding, 9
by disclosing to us the secret of his will. This was according to his good
pleasure, which he displayed in Christ, 10
leading to the administration of the fulfilment of time. It is to sum up all
things in Christ: things in heaven and things on earth, in him.

11
In Christ we were also claimed by God as his inheritance, having been
predetermined according to the design of the one who acts in everything
according to the purpose of his will, 12
so that we might be for the praise of his glory—we who first hoped in Christ. 13
In Christ, you too—having heard the word of truth, the gospel of your
salvation, and also having believed in him—were sealed with the promised Holy
Spirit. 14
The Holy Spirit is the first instalment of our inheritance, guaranteeing that
God will redeem his possession, to the praise of his glory.

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