Ephesians Chapter 4 verse 2 Holy Bible

ASV Ephesians 4:2

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
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BBE Ephesians 4:2

With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;
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DARBY Ephesians 4:2

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;
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KJV Ephesians 4:2

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
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WBT Ephesians 4:2


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WEB Ephesians 4:2

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
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YLT Ephesians 4:2

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,
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Ephesians 4 : 2 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - SOME POINTS OF A WORTHY WALK. With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love. He begins his enumeration with passive graces - eminently those of Christ. Lowliness or humility may well be gendered by our remembering what we were when God's grace took hold of us (Ephesians 2:1-3). Meekness is the natural expression of a lowly state of mind, opposed to boisterous self-assertion and rude striving with others; it genders a subdued manner and a peace-loving spirit that studies to give the soft answer that turneth away wrath. Long-suffering and loving forbearance are phases of the same state of mind - denoting the absence of that irascibility and proneness to take offence which flares up at every provocation or fancied neglect, and strives to maintain self-control on every occasion. It is from such qualities in God that our redemption has come; it is miserable to accept the redemption and not try to attain and exhibit its true spirit. Neglect of this verse has produced untold evil in the Christian Church

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering.--See Colossians 3:12, where the same three qualities are dwelt upon, but there introduced by "compassion and kindness." They seem to correspond almost exactly to the first, third, and fifth beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount, in which the principle of love is wrought out in various forms (as in the other beatitudes the principle of righteousness): "Blessed are the poor in spirit;" "Blessed are the meek;" "Blessed are the merciful." The word "lowliness of mind" is used by St. Paul only in the Epistles of the Captivity (Philippians 2:3; Colossians 2:18; Colossians 2:23; Colossians 3:12) and in the address to the Ephesian presbyters (Acts 20:19). It is, indeed, a word new coined in Christian terminology, and even the root from which it comes is mostly used by the heathen moralists in a bad sense (of meanness and slavishness), of which there is still a trace in Colossians 2:18. "Meekness" is mostly "gentleness"--"the meek and quiet spirit" (1Peter 3:4)--the natural, though not the invariable, fruit of humility, winning souls by its very absence of bitter self-assertion, and so "inheriting the earth." "Longsuffering" is the manifestation of such meekness, with something of especial effort and struggle, in the bearing of injury. . . .