Ephesians Chapter 4 verse 15 Holy Bible

ASV Ephesians 4:15

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, `even' Christ;
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BBE Ephesians 4:15

But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;
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DARBY Ephesians 4:15

but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:
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KJV Ephesians 4:15

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
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WBT Ephesians 4:15


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WEB Ephesians 4:15

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
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YLT Ephesians 4:15

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him `in' all things, who is the head -- the Christ;
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Ephesians 4 : 15 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - But speaking the truth in love. Ἀληθεύοντες is hardly translatable in English it implies being true as well as speaking the truth and following the truth. Truth is the element in which we are to live, move, and have our being; fidelity to truth is the backbone of the Christian ministry. But truth must be inseparably married to love; good tidings spoken harshly are no good tidings; the charm of the message is destroyed by the discordant spirit of the messenger. The more painful the first impression which a truth is fitted to produce (e.g., Ephesians 2:1-3), the more need is there for dealing with it in love - a much-needed and much-neglected exhortation. May grow up into him in all things who is the Head, namely, Christ. Growing up into Christ is like baptizing into the Name of the Father, etc.; it implies that the growth tends to a closer union to Christ, as, on the other hand, union to Christ causes the growth: the two act and react on each other. This growth is to be "in all things" - in the whole man - in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, in all the communicable properties of Christ. How great the work of growth is that should be sought in the case of every living believer is evident from the enormous gulf there is between his spiritual and moral state and that of Christ. Yet such growth is reasonable, considering the relation of the body to him, its Head. The fact of this relation should encourage us to seek and expect the growth, and encourage ministers to labor hopefully towards promoting it.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) But speaking the truth in love.--It has been doubted whether the words "in love" should not be connected with "may grow up," &c., exactly as in Ephesians 4:16, "maketh increase of the body . . . in love." But both order and sense seem to point to the connection given in our version. The correct rendering is, being true in love; including in this the "being true" to others, by speaking truly and acting honestly towards them (as in Galatians 4:16), but including also the "being true" absolutely--that is, the loving the truth, and clinging to it at all costs. The latter element, indeed, is the one which stands here more properly in antithesis to the childish instability described in the preceding verse; as it is in itself the more important, and is, in fact, the only basis for the other."To thine own self be true,And it will follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man."This "being true" is expressed in many forms. Sometimes as "being of the truth" (John 18:37; 1John 2:21; 1John 3:19); sometimes as "abiding in the truth" (John 8:44), or "having the truth in us" (1John 1:8); sometimes as "doing the truth" (John 3:21), and "walking in the truth" (2John 1:4; 3John 1:4). In all cases it is closely connected with the idea of unity with Him who is Himself "the Truth" (John 14:6). . . .