Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. New Living Translation May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. English Standard Version and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Berean Standard Bible of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Berean Literal Bible and to know the love of Christ surpassing knowledge, so that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God. King James Bible And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. New King James Version to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. New American Standard Bible and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to all the fullness of God. NASB 1995 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. NASB 1977 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fulness of God. Legacy Standard Bible and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Amplified Bible and [that you may come] to know [practically, through personal experience] the love of Christ which far surpasses [mere] knowledge [without experience], that you may be filled up [throughout your being] to all the fullness of God [so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself]. Christian Standard Bible and to know Christ’s love that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Holman Christian Standard Bible and to know the Messiah’s love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God. American Standard Version and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And you may know the magnitude of the knowledge of the love of The Messiah and you may be filled in all the fullness of God. Contemporary English Version I want you to know all about Christ's love, although it is too wonderful to be measured. Then your lives will be filled with all that God is. Douay-Rheims Bible To know also the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all knowledge, that you may be filled unto all the fulness of God. English Revised Version and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God. GOD'S WORD® Translation You will know Christ's love, which goes far beyond any knowledge. I am praying this so that you may be completely filled with God. Good News Translation Yes, may you come to know his love--although it can never be fully known--and so be completely filled with the very nature of God. International Standard Version that is, you will know the love of the Messiah — which transcends knowledge, and will be filled with all the fullness of God. Literal Standard Version to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that you may be filled—to all the fullness of God; Majority Standard Bible of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. New American Bible and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. NET Bible and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. New Revised Standard Version and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. New Heart English Bible and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Webster's Bible Translation And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fullness of God. Weymouth New Testament yes, to attain to a knowledge of the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ, so that you may be made complete in accordance with God's own standard of completeness. World English Bible and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Young's Literal Translation to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Paul's Prayer for the Ephesians…18will 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. 20Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,… Cross References John 1:16 From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace. Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? Romans 8:39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Ephesians 1:23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Colossians 2:10 And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority. 1 Peter 1:8 Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy, Treasury of Scripture And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God. to know. Ephesians 3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; Ephesians 5:2,25 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour… John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. passeth. Philippians 1:7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace. that ye. Ephesians 1:23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. Psalm 17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. Psalm 43:4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. Jump to Previous Accordance Attain Christ Christ's Complete Completeness Exceeding Filled Fullness Fulness God's Love Measure Outside Passeth Standard SurpassesJump to Next Accordance Attain Christ Christ's Complete Completeness Exceeding Filled Fullness Fulness God's Love Measure Outside Passeth Standard SurpassesEphesians 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. (19) To know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.--The intentional paradox of this expression is weakened if (with many interpretations) we suppose that there is opposition in kind between knowledge referred to in the two clauses: as if "to know" meant to know by faith and spiritual experience, while the "knowledge," which the love of Christ "passes," is mere "human knowledge"--head-knowledge, and the like. Of such opposition there is no trace (contrast 1Corinthians 2:6-16). In the original, the word "to know" is in a tense which expresses cognition in a particular case; hence the meaning of St. Paul's prayer seems to be that they may know from time to time, as each opportunity offers, what must in its entirety pass all human knowledge, either to discover or fully to understand, even when revealing itself; so that they may always go on from faith to faith, from knowledge to knowledge, and yet find new depths still to be fathomed. The "love of Christ" is the love which He bears to us, and which is the motive of His sacrifice for our redemption. It is known only by those who are rooted in love to Him; such love being at once the consequence of the first knowledge of His love to us (1John 4:19) and the condition of entering more deeply into that knowledge. That ye might be filled with (or, rather, up to) all the fulness of God.--This clause must be taken as dependent, not merely on the clause immediately preceding, but on the whole sentence. It describes the final and glorious consequence of the indwelling of Christ in the heart, viz., the "being filled" with grace "up to the fulness of God." The meaning is more clearly seen in the fuller expression below (Ephesians 4:13): "till we all come . . . to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." It is simply perfect conformation to the image of Him in whom "dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily" (Colossians 2:9), and whose fulness is therefore the "fulness of God," manifesting all the attributes of the divine nature. The process is described in 2Corinthians 3:18, "We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory;" its consummation in 1John 3:2, "When He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is." (Comp. Philippians 3:20-21.) Here it completes the climax. When Christ dwells in the heart we have first, love perfecting the faith which roots the life in Him; next, a thoughtful knowledge, entering by degrees into the unsearchable riches of His love to us; and, lastly, the filling the soul, itself weak and empty, up to the perfection of likeness to Him, so renewing and deepening through all time and eternity the image of God in our humanity. . . . Verse 19. - And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge. The love here is evidently the love of Christ to us, and this may well be specified as a special matter of prayer. Knowledge of Christ's love, in the sense of an inward personal experience of it - its freeness, its tenderness, its depth, its patience - is the great dynamic of the gospel. This love is transmuted into spiritual force. As the breeze fills the sails and bears forward the ship, so the love of Christ fills the soul and moves it in the direction of God's will. But in its fullness it passeth knowledge; it is infinite, not to be grasped by mortal man, and therefore always presenting new fields to be explored, new depths to be fathomed. That ye may be filled with all the fullness of God; that is, that ye may be filled with spiritual grace and blessing to an extent corresponding to all the fullness of God. Though the finite cannot compare with the infinite, there may be a correspondence between them according to the capacity of each. There is a fullness of gracious attainment in every advanced believer that corresponds to all the fullness of God; every part of his nature is supplied from the Divine fountain, and, so far as a creature can, he presents the image of the Divine fullness. In the human nature of Christ this correspondence was perfect: "In him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;" in the soul of the believer there may be a progressive movement towards this fullness. No higher view can be conceived of the dignity of man's nature, and the glorious privileges conferred on him by the gospel, than that he is susceptible of such conformity to God. Who can conceive that man should have attained to such a capacity by a mere process of evolution? "So God made man in his own image;" and in Christ man is "renewed in righteousness and holiness after the image of him who created him."Parallel Commentaries ... Greek andτε (te) Conjunction Strong's 5037: And, both. A primary particle of connection or addition; both or also. to know γνῶναί (gnōnai) Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active Strong's 1097: A prolonged form of a primary verb; to 'know' in a great variety of applications and with many implications. the τὴν (tēn) Article - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. love ἀγάπην (agapēn) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 26: From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast. of Christ Χριστοῦ (Christou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus. [that] surpasses ὑπερβάλλουσαν (hyperballousan) Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 5235: To surpass, excel, exceed, transcend. From huper and ballo; to throw beyod the usual mark, i.e. to surpass. knowledge, γνώσεως (gnōseōs) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 1108: Knowledge, doctrine, wisdom. From ginosko; knowing, i.e. knowledge. that ἵνα (hina) Conjunction Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that. you may be filled πληρωθῆτε (plērōthēte) Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Passive - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 4137: From pleres; to make replete, i.e. to cram, level up, or to furnish, satisfy, execute, finish, verify, etc. with εἰς (eis) Preposition Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases. all πᾶν (pan) Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular 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 τὸ (to) Article - Accusative 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. fullness πλήρωμα (plērōma) Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular Strong's 4138: From pleroo; repletion or completion, i.e. what fills, or what is filled. of God. Θεοῦ (Theou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. Links Ephesians 3:19 NIVEphesians 3:19 NLT Ephesians 3:19 ESV Ephesians 3:19 NASB Ephesians 3:19 KJV Ephesians 3:19 BibleApps.com Ephesians 3:19 Biblia Paralela Ephesians 3:19 Chinese Bible Ephesians 3:19 French Bible Ephesians 3:19 Catholic Bible NT Letters: Ephesians 3:19 And to know Christ's love which surpasses (Ephes. Eph. Ep) |
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