



Produced by Martin Ward








Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Ephesians

Third Edition 1913


R. F. Weymouth




Book 49 Ephesians

001:001 Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God:  To God's
        people who are in Ephesus--believers in Christ Jesus.

001:002 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father
        and the Lord Jesus Christ.

001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
        who has crowned us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly
        realms in Christ;

001:004 even as, in His love, He chose us as His own in Christ before
        the creation of the world, that we might be holy and without
        blemish in His presence.

001:005 For He pre-destined us to be adopted by Himself as sons through
        Jesus Christ--such being His gracious will and pleasure--

001:006 to the praise of the splendour of His grace with which He has
        enriched us in the beloved One.

001:007 It is in Him, and through the shedding of His blood, that we
        have our deliverance--the forgiveness of our offences--
        so abundant was God's grace,

001:008 the grace which He, the possessor of all wisdom and understanding,
        lavished upon us,

001:009 when He made known to us the secret of His will.
        And this is in harmony with God's merciful purpose

001:010 for the government of the world when the times are ripe for it--
        the purpose which He has cherished in His own mind of restoring
        the whole creation to find its one Head in Christ; yes, things in
        Heaven and things on earth, to find their one Head in Him.

001:011 In Him we Jews have been made heirs, having been chosen
        beforehand in accordance with the intention of Him whose
        might carries out in everything the design of His own will,

001:012 so that we should be devoted to the extolling of His
        glorious attributes--we who were the first to fix our
        hopes on Christ.

001:013 And in Him you Gentiles also, after listening to the Message
        of the truth, the Good News of your salvation--having believed
        in Him--were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit;

001:014 that Spirit being a pledge and foretaste of our inheritance,
        in anticipation of its full redemption--the inheritance
        which He has purchased to be specially His for the extolling
        of His glory.

001:015 For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus
        which prevails among you, and of your love for all God's people,

001:016 offer never ceasing thanks on your behalf while I make mention
        of you in my prayers.

001:017 For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ--
        the Father most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom
        and penetration through an intimate knowledge of Him,

001:018 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened so that you
        may know what is the hope which His call to you inspires,
        what the wealth of the glory of His inheritance in God's people,

001:019 and what the transcendent greatness of His power in us believers
        as seen in the working of His infinite might

001:020 when He displayed it in Christ by raising Him from the dead
        and seating Him at His own right hand in the heavenly realms,

001:021 high above all other government and authority and power
        and dominion, and every title of sovereignty used either
        in this Age or in the Age to come.

001:022 God has put all things under His feet, and has appointed Him
        universal and supreme Head of the Church, which is His Body,

001:023 the completeness of Him who everywhere fills the universe
        with Himself.

002:001 To you Gentiles also, who were dead through your offences and sins,

002:002 which were once habitual to you while you walked in the ways
        of this world and obeyed the Prince of the powers of the air,
        the spirits that are now at work in the hearts of the sons
        of disobedience--to you God has given Life.

002:003 Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by
        the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings
        of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our
        original state deserving of anger like all others.

002:004 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love
        which He bestowed on us,

002:005 caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live
        with Christ--it is by grace that you have been saved--

002:006 raised us with Him from the dead, and enthroned us with Him
        in the heavenly realms as being in Christ Jesus,

002:007 in order that, by His goodness to us in Christ Jesus, He might
        display in the Ages to come the transcendent riches of His grace.

002:008 For it is by grace that you have been saved through faith;
        and that not of yourselves.  It is God's gift, and is not on
        the ground of merit--

002:009 so that it may be impossible for any one to boast.

002:010 For we are God's own handiwork,