TRANSLATION OF THE LETTER TO EPHESIANS WITH COMMENT EPHESIANS 6: 10 ff Finally, keep growing stronger in the master and in his mighty power. Put on the complete armour of God, so that you are able to withstand the tricks of the devil. For our wrestling bout is not against flesh and blood opponents but […]

TRANSLATIONS OF THE LETTER TO EPHESIANS WITH COMMENT EPHESIANS 6:1ff Children, obey your parents because this is just. “Honour your father and mother” – which is the first command with a promise- “so that you may prosper and live long in the land.” Fathers, do not enrage your children but nourish them with the education […]

TRANSLATION OF THE LETTER TO EPHESIANS WITH COMMENT EPHESIANS 5: 15 Look shrewdly at your way of life, as wise rather than stupid people, buying back time for goodness, for the days are evil. So do not be ignorant but understand what the master wants – and do not get drunk with wine, for that […]

TRANSLATION OF THE LETTER TO EPHESIANS WITH COMMENT EPHESIANS 5: Ff As dear children, then, become imitators of God! Walk in love, just as Messiah loved us and handed himself over on our behalf, “a sacrifice offered to God, with a pleasing smell,” as the psalm says. But sexual promiscuity and all kinds of unclean […]

TRANSLATION OF THE LETTER TO EPHESIANS WITH COMMENT EPHESIANS 4:25ff So, let everyone put away deceit and speak truth with their neighbour, for we are limbs of one another. Be angry if you must but do not sin; do not let the sun set on your rage, and grant no space in your soul to […]

TRANSLATION OF THE LETTER TO EPHESIANS WITH COMMENT EPHESIANS 4:14 ff We are no longer to be children to be tossed here and there by waves and carried off by every wind of teaching, by human sleight of hand, by skilled schemes of deception; rather by telling it as it is, in love, we should […]

TRANSLATION OF THE LETTER TO EPHESIANS WITH COMMENT EPHESIANS 4: 1ff Prisoner as I am for the Master, I beg you to walk in a way worthy of God’s call, with complete humility and gentleness, patiently putting up with one another in love, making an effort to maintain spiritual unity in the bond of peace. […]

TRANSLATION OF THE LETTER TO EPHESIANS WITH COMMENT EPHESIANS 3:14ff -For this reason, I bend my knees before the father, from whom every lineage in heaven and upon earth gets its name, that from his splendid riches he may give some to you, so that you may be mightily strengthened in your inner being, through […]

TRANSLATION OF THE LETTER TO EPHESIANS WITH COMMENT EPHESIANS 3:1 For this reason, I, Paul, Messiah Jesus’ prisoner on behalf of you Gentiles – ( of course you will have heard of the management of God’s kindness which was given to me for you; how the secret was made known to me by God’s disclosure, […]

TRANSLATION OF THE LETTER TO EPHESIANS WITH COMMENT EPHESIANS 2:17 And he came announcing peace to you who were at a distance, and peace to those who were near, so that through him we both have an introduction to the father in the one spirit. No longer then are you foreigners and travellers, but fellow-citizens […]