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Young's Literal Translation of the Bible: Ephesians

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This is the Epistle to the Ephesians, a first-century Christian letter attributed to Paul and addressed to the church at Ephesus, belonging to the tradition of Pauline epistolary literature in the New Testament. The letter's first half develops a theological argument that God, before creation, chose believers in Christ and is now uniting all things — Jews and Gentiles alike — into one body, the church, through Christ's death and resurrection. A particularly distinctive claim is that this reconciliation of formerly divided peoples (the "near" and the "far") into one new humanity was itself a cosmic demonstration of God's "manifold wisdom" to supernatural powers and authorities. The second half pivots from theology to ethics, calling readers to live out this unity practically: through humility, truthfulness, controlled anger, generosity, sexual integrity, and mutual forgiveness modeled on God's forgiveness. The letter is notable for its unusually elevated, doxological prose style (especially chapters 1–3) and its sustained use of spatial metaphors — "heavenly places," height and depth, building and body — to describe the scope of Christ's reconciling work.

Young's Literal Translation of the Bible: Ephesians

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