Ephesians · Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
Ephesians 4 Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
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1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation by which ye are called,
1 YO pues, preso en el Señor, os ruego que andéis como es digno de la vocación con que sois llamados;
2 With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love;
2 Con toda humildad y mansedumbre, con paciencia soportando los unos á los otros en amor;
3 Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
3 Solícitos á guardar la unidad del Espíritu en el vínculo de la paz.
4 [There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
4 Un cuerpo, y un Espíritu; como sois también llamados á una misma esperanza de vuestra vocación:
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
5 Un Señor, una fe, un bautismo,
6 One God and Father of all, who [is] above all, and through all, and in you all.
6 Un Dios y Padre de todos, el cual es sobre todas las cosas, y por todas las cosas, y en todos vosotros.
7 But to every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
7 Empero á cada uno de nosotros es dada la gracia conforme á la medida del don de Cristo.
8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.
8 Por lo cual dice: Subiendo á lo alto, llevó cautiva la cautividad, y dió dones á los hombres.
9 Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
9 (Y que subió, ¿qué es, sino que también había descendido primero á las partes más bajas de la tierra?
10 He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.
10 El que descendió, él mismo es el que también subió sobre todos los cielos para cumplir todas las cosas.)
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
11 Y él mismo dió unos, ciertamente apóstoles; y otros, profetas; y otros, evangelistas; y otros, pastores y doctores;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
12 Para perfección de los santos, para la obra del ministerio, para edificación del cuerpo de Cristo;
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:
13 Hasta que todos lleguemos á la unidad de la fe y del conocimiento del Hijo de Dios, á un varón perfecto, á la medida de la edad de la plenitud de Cristo:
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and] cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive:
14 Que ya no seamos niños fluctuantes, y llevados por doquiera de todo viento de doctrina, por estratagema de hombres que, para engañar, emplean con astucia los artificios del error:
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, [even] Christ:
15 Antes siguiendo la verdad en amor, crezcamos en todas cosas en aquel que es la cabeza, [á saber], Cristo;
16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body to the edifying of itself in love.
16 Del cual, todo el cuerpo compuesto y bien ligado entre sí por todas las junturas de su alimento, [que recibe] según la operación, cada miembro conforme á su medida toma aumento de cuerpo edificándose en amor.
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
17 Esto pues digo, y requiero en el Señor, que no andéis más como los otros Gentiles, que andan en la vanidad de su sentido,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
18 Teniendo el entendimiento entenebrecido, ajenos de la vida de Dios por la ignorancia que en ellos hay, por la dureza de su corazón:
19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
19 Los cuales después que perdieron el sentido [de la conciencia], se entregaron á la desvergüenza para cometer con avidez toda suerte de impureza.
20 But ye have not so learned Christ;
20 Mas vosotros no habéis aprendido así á Cristo:
21 If indeed ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
21 Si empero lo habéis oído, y habéis sido por él enseñados, como la verdad está en Jesús,
22 That ye put off concerning the former manner of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts:
22 A que dejéis, cuanto á la pasada manera de vivir, el viejo hombre que está viciado conforme á los deseos de error;
23 And be renewed in the Spirit of your mind;
23 Y á renovaros en el espíritu de vuestra mente,
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
24 Y vestir el nuevo hombre que es criado conforme á Dios en justicia y en santidad de verdad.
25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
25 Por lo cual, dejada la mentira, hablad verdad cada uno con su prójimo; porque somos miembros los unos de los otros.
26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
26 Airaos, y no pequéis; no se ponga el sol sobre vuestro enojo;
27 Neither give place to the devil.
27 Ni deis lugar al diablo.
28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
28 El que hurtaba, no hurte más; antes trabaje, obrando con sus manos lo que es bueno, para que tenga de qué dar al que padeciere necesidad.
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers.
29 Ninguna palabra torpe salga de vuestra boca, sino la que sea buena para edificación, para que dé gracia á los oyentes.
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed to the day of redemption.
30 Y no contristéis al Espíritu Santo de Dios, con el cual estáis sellados para el día de la redención.
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
31 Toda amargura, y enojo, é ira, y voces, y maledicencia sea quitada de vosotros, y toda malicia:
32 And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
32 Antes sed los unos con los otros benignos, misericordiosos, perdonándoos los unos á los otros, como también Dios os perdonó en Cristo.
Cross references (32)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Colossians 1:10; Philippians 1:27; 1 Thessalonians 2:12; 1 Thessalonians 4:1–2; 2 Peter 1:3
- 2 Colossians 3:12–13; 1 Corinthians 13:7; 1 Corinthians 13:4–5; Matthew 11:29; Romans 15:1
- 3 1 Corinthians 1:10; Colossians 3:13–15; 1 Corinthians 12:12–13; John 13:34; Romans 14:17–19
- 4 Ephesians 2:18; Romans 12:4–5; 1 Corinthians 12:4–13; 1 Corinthians 12:20; Ephesians 4:1
- 5 1 Corinthians 8:6; 1 Corinthians 12:13; 1 Peter 3:21; Romans 3:30; Galatians 3:26–28
- 6 Romans 11:36; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Malachi 2:10; Galatians 3:26–28; Galatians 4:3–7
- 7 Romans 12:3; 1 Peter 4:10; 1 Corinthians 12:7–11; Ephesians 3:2; Romans 12:6–8
- 8 Psalm 68:18; Colossians 2:15
- 9 John 3:13; Matthew 12:40; Proverbs 30:4; John 6:33; Psalm 63:9
- 10 Hebrews 7:26; Hebrews 4:14; Ephesians 1:20–23; Colossians 2:9; Hebrews 9:23–24
- 11 Jeremiah 3:15; 1 Corinthians 12:28–29; Ephesians 2:20; 2 Timothy 4:5; Acts 20:28
- 12 1 Thessalonians 5:11–14; Ephesians 4:16; 1 Corinthians 12:27; Romans 15:14; 1 Corinthians 14:4–5
- 13 Colossians 1:28; John 17:21; Ephesians 4:3; Ephesians 4:5; Jeremiah 32:38–39
- 14 Hebrews 13:9; Romans 16:17–18; 1 Corinthians 14:20; 1 John 4:1; Hebrews 5:12–14
- 15 1 John 3:18; Ephesians 4:25; Zechariah 8:16; 1 Peter 1:22; 2 Peter 3:18
- 16 Colossians 2:19; John 15:5; Colossians 2:2; 1 Corinthians 13:13–14:1; Ephesians 4:15
- 17 Romans 1:21; 1 Peter 4:3–4; 1 Thessalonians 4:1–2; Colossians 3:5–8; Ephesians 2:1–3
- 18 Matthew 13:15; Ephesians 2:12; Romans 1:21–23; John 12:40; 1 Thessalonians 4:5
- 19 Colossians 3:5; Romans 1:24–26; 1 Timothy 4:2; Jude 11; 2 Peter 2:12–14
- 20 Titus 2:11–14; John 6:45; Matthew 11:29; 1 John 2:27; Luke 24:47
- 21 1 John 5:20; Ephesians 1:13; Hebrews 3:7–8; 1 John 5:10–12; John 14:17
- 22 Romans 6:6; Hebrews 12:1; James 1:21; 1 Peter 2:1–2; Hebrews 3:13
- 23 Romans 12:2; Romans 8:6; Psalm 51:10; Colossians 3:10; 1 Peter 1:13
- 24 Colossians 3:10–14; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Romans 13:14; Ephesians 2:10; Ephesians 6:11
- 25 Colossians 3:9; Zechariah 8:16; Proverbs 12:22; Romans 12:5; Ephesians 4:15
- 26 James 1:19; Psalm 4:4; Psalm 37:8; Ephesians 4:31–32; Ecclesiastes 7:9
- 27 James 4:7; 1 Peter 5:8; Ephesians 6:16; Ephesians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 2:10–11
- 28 1 Timothy 6:18; Galatians 6:10; 1 Thessalonians 4:11–12; Exodus 20:15; 2 Thessalonians 3:11–12
- 29 Colossians 4:6; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; Ecclesiastes 10:12; Proverbs 15:7; Colossians 3:8–9
- 30 1 Thessalonians 5:19; Isaiah 63:10; Ephesians 1:13–14; Acts 7:51; Genesis 6:6
- 31 Colossians 3:8; Ecclesiastes 7:9; Titus 3:2–3; 1 Peter 2:1; James 1:19
- 32 Colossians 3:12–13; Matthew 6:14–15; Mark 11:25; 1 Peter 3:8–9; 2 Corinthians 2:10
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