Ephesians Chapter 4

Ephesians Chapter 4

I, the prisoner of the Lord, encourage you to make yourselves worthy of the vocation to which you have been called, with humility and meekness, with longsuffering, and give up one another in love (whoa, is this where we come up with the priests shouldn’t marry nonsense? Just from some stupid letter that Paul wrote? I don’t really think that’s a commandment from God). Try to keep the unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace.

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you hope for your calling. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God who is Father of everyone. He is above all, and throughout everything, and he’s in all of you (not me, I hope!).

But every one of us is given grace according to Christ’s whim. He said, when he ascended up to heaven that “he led captivity captive” (riddle me this Batman? What’s with all the prisoner talk in this little episode. All of a sudden Paul is a prisoner of God, Jesus is leading captives while in captivity… I think the dude might be losing his mind in prison. I assume he’s in prison as he writes this or he’s just a freak show), and JC gave gifts to men.

Now that he ascended, it only makes sense that he first descended into the lower parts of the earth? (the liquid magma?) He that descended is the same dud who also ascended far above the heavens so he could fill up all the space in the universe.

And he gave some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and even some pastors and teachers. All these were given so they could help the saints become more perfect for God’s ministry and also for the edification of Christ.

These will all be around until we all come into the unity of the faith and know the Son of God who is a perfect man, and we should know the measure of the stature of the fullness of JC (does that mean his height and weight?)

Then we will no longer be children who are tossed to and fro and carried about with eery wind of doctrine by the men with cunning and craftiness who are lying in wait to deceive us. But we should speak the truth in love, so that we can grow up into him in all things, the head of which is our pal JC.


It is from him that the whole body fits together and gets compacted with joints, and every part works effectively together to increase the body and edify this love.

Therefore I say this, and I testify to the Lord, that from now on Gentiles won’t walk as others, in the vanity of their mind (God hates logic… almost as much as he loves his money… oops, did I say that?), having their understanding darkened, and being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their hearts. These folks have moved passed feeling and have given themselves over to lasciviousness to work only on unclean things and with greediness.

But you have not learned enough about Christ. If you’ve heard him and been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus, then you don’t have to worry about the things I was just mentioning, because all that is corrupt and succumbs to deceitful lusts. You can be renewed, you are a new man who acts as God wants and is created in righteousness and true holiness. So, put away your lying, speak only truth to your neighbor, for we’re all members of one another.

Be angry, but don’t sin and don’t let the sun set on your anger. Don’t give the devil a place. Don’t let anyone who steals steal anymore, let him labor, let him work with his hands in something good so that he can have what he needs. Don’t let corrupt communication come out of your mouth, but only speak good things so that you can minister grace to the hearers.

Don’t grieve the holy spirit who you are sealed with until the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking leave you, and also get rid of your malice.

Be kind to one another, be tenderhearted and forgiving, just as God has forgiven you.