Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, New Living Translation And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. English Standard Version may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, Berean Standard Bible will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth Berean Literal Bible so that you may be fully able, with all the saints, to comprehend what is the breadth and length and height and depth, King James Bible May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; New King James Version may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— New American Standard Bible may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth, NASB 1995 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, NASB 1977 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, Legacy Standard Bible may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, Amplified Bible be fully capable of comprehending with all the saints (God’s people) the width and length and height and depth of His love [fully experiencing that amazing, endless love]; Christian Standard Bible may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love, Holman Christian Standard Bible may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love, American Standard Version may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, Aramaic Bible in Plain English That you can discover with all the holy, what is the height and depth and length and breadth, Contemporary English Version I pray that you and all God's people will understand what is called wide or long or high or deep. Douay-Rheims Bible You may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth: English Revised Version may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, GOD'S WORD® Translation This way, with all of God's people you will be able to understand how wide, long, high, and deep his love is. Good News Translation so that you, together with all God's people, may have the power to understand how broad and long, how high and deep, is Christ's love. International Standard Version you will be able to understand, along with all the saints, what is wide, long, high, and deep— Literal Standard Version that you may be in strength to comprehend, with all the holy ones, what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, Majority Standard Bible will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and depth and height New American Bible may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and length and height and depth, NET Bible you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, New Revised Standard Version I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, New Heart English Bible may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, Webster's Bible Translation May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and highth. Weymouth New Testament as it is grasped by all God's people, of the breadth and length, the height and depth-- World English Bible may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth, Young's Literal Translation that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Paul's Prayer for the Ephesians…17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth 19of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.… Cross References Job 11:8 They are higher than the heavens--what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol--what can you know? Ephesians 1:15 For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, Treasury of Scripture May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; able. Ephesians 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Ephesians 1:18-23 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, … Job 11:7-9 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? … with. Ephesians 1:10,15 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: … Deuteronomy 33:2,3 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them… 2 Chronicles 6:41 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness. what. Romans 10:3,11,12 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God… Jump to Previous Able Apprehend Breadth Christ Comprehend Deep Depth God's Grasp Grasped Height High Highth Length Order Power Saints Strength Strengthened Strong Together WideJump to Next Able Apprehend Breadth Christ Comprehend Deep Depth God's Grasp Grasped Height High Highth Length Order Power Saints Strength Strengthened Strong Together WideEphesians 3 1. The hidden mystery that the Gentiles should be saved was made known to Paul by revelation;8. and to him was that grace given, that he should preach it. 13. He desires them not to be discouraged over his tribulation; 14. and prays that they may perceive the great love of Christ toward them. (18) May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height.--It has been asked, Of what? Various answers have been given; but as St. Paul has obviously of set purpose omitted all definition, leaving the phrase incomplete in absolute generality, no answer can be perfectly satisfactory. The early fathers delighted to refer it to the cross, and to trace in the four dimensions of the cross a symbol of this four-fold extension of the love of God in Christ. The clause following, "to know the love of Christ," though partly explanatory of this, hardly seems to be identical or co-extensive with it. The knowledge there described is a part--perhaps the chief part, but not the whole--of the comprehension here prayed for. If anything is to be supplied, it should probably be "of the mystery"--i.e., of the whole mystery on which St. Paul had been dwelling, including the predestination, the redemption, the call and union of Jews and Gentiles. The prayer is that we may know it every way, in every direction in which the soul can go forth towards God. It may be noted that comprehension is placed after love, just as in Philippians 1:9, "I pray that your love may abound (that is, overflow) in knowledge and in all judgment." The spiritual order of revelation differs from that of the "wisdom of the world." It has first faith, next love, and finally knowledge, because its object is a person, not an abstract principle. That knowledge must, even here, "grow from more to more;" but St. Paul's prayer can never be perfectly realised till we "know even as we are known." Verse 18. - May be made strong to comprehend with all the saints. The subject to be comprehended is not only beyond man's natural capacity, but beyond the ordinary force of his spiritual capacity. The thing to be grasped needs a special strength of heart and soul; the heart needs to be enlarged, the mental "hands of the arms" need to be made strong (Genesis 49:24). But the attainment is not impossible - it is the experience of "all the saints;" all God's children are enabled to grasp something of this (comp. 2 Corinthians 4:3-6). What is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height. No genitive being given, it has been a difficult point to settle to what these dimensions must be held to be applicable. Some think that the love of Christ in the following clause must be meant; but surely when that is made the subject of a separate part of the prayer, and is not in the genitive but the objective case, governed by a verb of its own, this explanation is not to be enter-rained. Others, with more reason, think that the idea of a temple was in the mind of the writer, as it certainly was in Ephesians 2:21, 22, and that it is the dimensions of the temple he had here in his eye, the prayer being that the Ephesians might comprehend the vastness and glory of that spiritual temple which is constituted by all believers, and in which God dwells by the Spirit. Even this, however, would not divest the construction of abruptness, and it would fit in but poorly with the context, in which the tenor o f the apostle's prayer is that a profusion of Divine blessing might be enjoyed by the Ephesians. If a genitive must be supplied, may we not conceive the apostle to have had in his view the entire provision God has made in Christ for the good of his people, so that the dimensions would be those of the gospel storehouse, the vast reservoir out of which the Church is filled? "Breadth" might denote the manifoldness of that provision; "length," its eternal duration; its "depth" might be represented by the profundity of Christ's humiliation; and its "height" by the loftiness of the condition to which his people are to be raised. To comprehend this, to understand its existence and its richness, is to get our faith enlarged, our expectations expanded; it is through this comprehension that "all the saints" have got their wants supplied, and their souls filled as with marrow and fatness.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek may have power,ἐξισχύσητε (exischysēte) Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 1840: From ek and ischuo; to have full strength, i.e. Be entirely competent. together with σὺν (syn) Preposition Strong's 4862: With. A primary preposition denoting union; with or together. all πᾶσιν (pasin) Adjective - Dative Masculine Plural Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. the τοῖς (tois) Article - Dative Masculine Plural Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. saints, ἁγίοις (hagiois) Adjective - Dative Masculine Plural Strong's 40: Set apart by (or for) God, holy, sacred. From hagos; sacred. to comprehend καταλαβέσθαι (katalabesthai) Verb - Aorist Infinitive Middle Strong's 2638: From kata and lambano; to take eagerly, i.e. Seize, possess, etc. the τὸ (to) Article - Nominative Neuter Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. length μῆκος (mēkos) Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular Strong's 3372: Length. Probably akin to megas; length length. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. width πλάτος (platos) Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular Strong's 4114: Breadth. From platus; width. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. height ὕψος (hypsos) Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular Strong's 5311: Height, heaven; dignity, eminence. From a derivative of huper; elevation, i.e. altitude, the sky, or dignity. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. depth [of His love], βάθος (bathos) Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular Strong's 899: From the same as bathus; profundity, i.e. extent; mystery. Links Ephesians 3:18 NIVEphesians 3:18 NLT Ephesians 3:18 ESV Ephesians 3:18 NASB Ephesians 3:18 KJV Ephesians 3:18 BibleApps.com Ephesians 3:18 Biblia Paralela Ephesians 3:18 Chinese Bible Ephesians 3:18 French Bible Ephesians 3:18 Catholic Bible NT Letters: Ephesians 3:18 May be strengthened to comprehend with all (Ephes. Eph. Ep) |
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