Ephesians 4:4
New International Version
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;

New Living Translation
For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future.

English Standard Version
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

Berean Standard Bible
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;

Berean Literal Bible
one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called into one hope of your calling;

King James Bible
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

New King James Version
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling;

New American Standard Bible
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you also were called in one hope of your calling;

NASB 1995
There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;

NASB 1977
There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;

Legacy Standard Bible
There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;

Amplified Bible
There is one body [of believers] and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when called [to salvation]—

Christian Standard Bible
There is one body and one Spirit —just as you were called to one hope at your calling—

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope at your calling—

American Standard Version
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And that you would be in one body and One Spirit as when you were called in one hope of your calling.

Contemporary English Version
All of you are part of the same body. There is only one Spirit of God, just as you were given one hope when you were chosen to be God's people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
One body and one Spirit; as you are called in one hope of your calling.

English Revised Version
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
There is one body and one Spirit. In the same way you were called to share one hope.

Good News Translation
There is one body and one Spirit, just as there is one hope to which God has called you.

International Standard Version
There is one body and one Spirit. Likewise, you were called to the one hope of your calling.

Literal Standard Version
one body and one Spirit, according as you were also called in one hope of your calling;

Majority Standard Bible
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;

New American Bible
one body and one Spirit, as you were also called to the one hope of your call;

NET Bible
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling,

New Revised Standard Version
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling,

New Heart English Bible
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;

Webster's Bible Translation
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

Weymouth New Testament
There is but one body and but one Spirit, as also when you were called you had one and the same hope held out to you.

World English Bible
There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

Young's Literal Translation
one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

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Context
Unity in the Body
3and with diligence to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5one Lord, one faith, one baptism;…

Cross References
Romans 11:29
For God's gifts and His call are irrevocable.

Romans 12:4
Just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members have the same function,

1 Corinthians 10:17
Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.

1 Corinthians 12:4
There are different gifts, but the same Spirit.

Ephesians 1:18
I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

Ephesians 2:16
and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.

Ephesians 2:18
For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.


Treasury of Scripture

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling;

one body.

Ephesians 2:16
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

Ephesians 5:30
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

Romans 12:4,5
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: …

one Spirit.

Ephesians 2:18,22
For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father…

Matthew 28:19
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

1 Corinthians 12:4-11
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit…

as.

Ephesians 4:1
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

Ephesians 1:18
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,

Jeremiah 14:8
O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

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Ephesians 4
1. He exhorts to unity;
7. and declares that God therefore gives various gifts unto men;
11. that his church might be edified,
16. and grow up in Christ.
18. He calls them from the impurity of the Gentiles;
24. to put on the new man;
25. to cast off lying;
29. and corrupt communication.














(4) There is one body, and one Spirit.--The words "There is" are not in the original, which starts with a striking abruption, and with that terse concentration of thought and word which marks out an embryo creed.

The "one body" is the Body of Christ, "from whom it is fitly framed, joined together, and compacted," so that in every part "it grows up into Him." But this communion with God in Christ being "the life eternal," the Holy Ghost, by making it effectual alike to the Church and to the individual soul, is the "Lord and Giver of Life." Hence, His presence is spoken of as being to the body of Christ what the spirit is to the natural body--the uniting and vivifying power for all its members. Under the same idea we have (in 1Corinthians 12:13), as a description of the first entrance into the Church of Christ, "By one Spirit are we all baptised into one body . . . and have been all made to drink into one Spirit."

Even as ye are (or rather, were) called in one hope of your calling.--The connection, though not at first obvious, is clear on consideration. Since the grace of the Holy Spirit is not only the "seal" of regeneration, but also the "earnest" (Ephesians 1:14) of future perfection, the mention of the one Spirit suggests naturally the "hope of our calling" (i.e., the perfect unity of heaven). In this, in spite of all natural and spiritual inequalities, and in spite even of our divisions and strifes upon earth, all Christians are still actually one. Hence the communion of saints is perhaps most clearly realised in the times of high spiritual aspiration, and in the near presence of death.

Verses 4-6. - WHEREIN UNITY CONSISTS - SEVEN PARTICULARS. There is one body (see Ephesians 2:16). The Church is an organic whole, of which believers are the members, and Christ the Head, supplying the vitalizing power: The real body, being constituted by vital union with Christ, is not synonymous with any single outward society. One Spirit; viz. the Holy Spirit, who alone applies the redemption of Christ, and works in the members of the Church the graces of the new creation. As ye also were called in one hope of your calling. This is one of the re-suits of the Spirit's work; when the Spirit called you he inspired you all with one hope, and this one hope was involved in the very essence of your calling (comp. Titus 2:13, "Looking for the blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ"). To all believers the Spirit imparted this one blessed hope. One Lord; Jesus Christ, unique and beyond comparison: as Teacher, all hang on his words; as Master, all own his supreme authority; to his example all refer as the standard; his likeness all covet as the highest excellence (where Mary is worshipped, though nominally you have but one Lord, virtually you have two). One faith; not objective in the sense of creed, but as denoting the one instrument of receiving salvation (Ephesians 2:8), the one belief in the one Savior by which we are justified, adopted, and in other ways blessed. One baptism. One initiatory rite admitting into the visible Church - baptism in name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, symbolic of the washing of regeneration, the one way of entering the Church invisible. One God and Father of all. We rise now to the fountain of Godhead, the one supreme Being with whom all have to do, the only Being who is or can be the Father of us all; who can be to us what is implied in the name "Father," who, so love and grace can satisfy our hearts. Who is over all; the supreme and only Potentate, exercising undivided jurisdiction, "doing according to his will in the armies of heaven." etc. And through all; pervading the whole universe, sustaining and ruling it, not dwelling apart from his works, but pervading them; not, however, in any pantheistical sense, but as a personal God, whose essence is separate from his works. And in all. A closer and more abiding influence; he dwells in them, and walks in them, molding their inner being, and filling them with his own light and love. Some commentators of mark have tried to find a reference to each of the persons of the Godhead in the three prepositions over, through, and by, but this seems a strained view. The three persons, however, appear clearly in the seven elements of unity, but, as before (Ephesians 3:16-19), in the reverse of the common order - first, the Spirit; second, the Son; and third, the Father. These seven elements constitute the true rarity of the Church. It is out of the question to identify the Church which is thus one, with any external organization like the Roman Catholic Church. How many millions have been connected with it who have notoriously been destitute of the one hope, the one Spirit, the one Father! It is of the invisible Church the apostle speaks, and his exhortation is, seeing that this blessed sevenfold unity is the unity wrought by the Holy Spirit, maintain that unity; maintain the manifestation of it; give no occasion to any one to say that there is no such unity - that the Holy Ghost is a Spirit of confusion and not a Spirit of order and unity.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
[There is] one
ἓν (hen)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 1520: One. (including the neuter Hen); a primary numeral; one.

body
σῶμα (sōma)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 4983: Body, flesh; the body of the Church. From sozo; the body, used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

one
ἓν (hen)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 1520: One. (including the neuter Hen); a primary numeral; one.

Spirit,
Πνεῦμα (Pneuma)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 4151: Wind, breath, spirit.

just as
καθὼς (kathōs)
Adverb
Strong's 2531: According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that.

you were called
ἐκλήθητε (eklēthēte)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 2564: (a) I call, summon, invite, (b) I call, name. Akin to the base of keleuo; to 'call'.

to
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

one
μιᾷ (mia)
Adjective - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1520: One. (including the neuter Hen); a primary numeral; one.

hope
ἐλπίδι (elpidi)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1680: Hope, expectation, trust, confidence. From a primary elpo; expectation or confidence.

[when]
τῆς (tēs)
Article - Genitive 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.

you
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

were called;
κλήσεως (klēseōs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 2821: A calling, invitation; in the NT, always of a divine call. From a shorter form of kaleo; an invitation.


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