Ephesians 1:4 Parallel Translations

Before the creation of the world, he chose us through Christ to be holy and perfect in his presence.(GOD'S WORD®)

According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

ASV:

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

BBE:

Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

DBY:

according as he has chosen us in him before the world's foundation, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love;

ERV:

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

WEY:

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.

WBS:

According as he hath chosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

WEB:

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;

YLT:

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

Ephesians 1:4 Cross References

XREF:

Matthew 25:34 "Then the King will say to those on His right, 'Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

Ephesians 4:2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love,

Ephesians 4:15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,

Ephesians 5:2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

Ephesians 5:27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.

Colossians 1:22 yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach--

2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

1:4 {6} According as he hath chosen us in {d} him before the foundation of the world, {7} that we {e} should {f} be holy and without blame {g} before him in love:
(6) He declares the efficient cause, or by what means God the Father saves us in his Son: because, he says, he chose us from everlasting in his Son.
(d) To be adopted in him.
(7) He expounds the next final cause which is twofold, that is, sanctification and justification, of which he will speak later. And by this also two things are to be noted, that is, that holiness of life cannot be separated from the grace of election: and again, whatever pureness is in us, is the gift of God who has freely of his mercy chosen us.
(e) God then, did not choose us because we were, or otherwise would have been holy, but to the end we should be holy.
(f) Being clothed with Christ's righteousness.
(g) Truly and sincerely.

PNT:

1:4 According as. Even as, in the Revised Version.
Chosen us in him before the foundation of the world. This does not affirm that God chose some individuals and rejected others, but that before the world was, before there was Jew or Gentile, God chose to have a people for himself, the whole church of Christ, a covenant people confined to no one earthly race.
That we should be holy. God chose them that they might be holy. Holiness is the proof that a church is a chosen church.

WES:

1:4 As he hath chosen us - Both Jews and gentiles, whom he foreknew as believing in Christ, 1Pet 1:2.

MHC:

1:3-8 Spiritual and heavenly blessings are the best blessings; with which we cannot be miserable, and without which we cannot but be so. This was from the choice of them in Christ, before the foundation of the world, that they should be made holy by separation from sin, being set apart to God, and sanctified by the Holy Spirit, in consequence of their election in Christ. All who are chosen to happiness as the end, are chosen to holiness as the means. In love they were predestinated, or fore-ordained, to be adopted as children of God by faith in Christ Jesus, and to be openly admitted to the privileges of that high relation to himself. The reconciled and adopted believer, the pardoned sinner, gives all the praise of his salvation to his gracious Father. His love appointed this method of redemption, spared not his own Son, and brought believers to hear and embrace this salvation. It was rich grace to provide such a surety as his own Son, and freely to deliver him up. This method of grace gives no encouragement to evil, but shows sin in all its hatefulness, and how it deserves vengeance. The believer's actions, as well as his words, declare the praises of Divine mercy.

CONC:

Blame Blameless Blemish Choose Chose Chosen Christ Creation Evil Foundation Free Holy Love Presence Selection Sight Unblemished World's

Blame Blameless Blemish Chose Chosen Christ Creation Evil First Foundation Free Holy Love Presence Selection Sight World World's

New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.

GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of God's Word to the Nations. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. All rights reserved.

Online Parallel Bible