Ephesians 3:18 Parallel Translations

This way, with all of God's people you will be able to understand how wide, long, high, and deep his love is.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

ASV:

may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

BBE:

May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is,

DBY:

in order that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height;

ERV:

may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

WEY:

as it is grasped by all God's people, of the breadth and length, the height and depth--

WBS:

May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and highth.

WEB:

may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

YLT:

that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

Ephesians 3:18 Cross References

XREF:

Job 11:8 "They are high as the heavens, what can you do? Deeper than Sheol, what can you know?

Ephesians 1:15 For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints {i} what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
(i) How perfect that work of Christ is in every part.

PNT:

3:18 May be able to comprehend. Unless they were rooted and grounded in love (Eph 3:17) and the love of God shed abroad in their hearts (Ro 5:5), it would be impossible for them to comprehend the exceeding riches of the love of Christ. This is the climax of prayer, the point to which the other petitions tend. Indeed, from the beginning of the Epistle, he has been declaring what love Christ has shown for the Gentile world.

WES:

3:18 That being rooted and grounded - That is, deeply fixed and firmly established, in love. Ye may comprehend - So far as an human mind is capable. What is the breadth of the love of Christ - Embracing all mankind. And length - From everlasting to everlasting. And depth - Not to be fathomed by any creature. And height - Not to be reached by any enemy.

MHC:

3:13-19 The apostle seems to be more anxious lest the believers should be discouraged and faint upon his tribulations, than for what he himself had to bear. He asks for spiritual blessings, which are the best blessings. Strength from the Spirit of God in the inner man; strength in the soul; the strength of faith, to serve God, and to do our duty. If the law of Christ is written in our hearts, and the love of Christ is shed abroad there, then Christ dwells there. Where his Spirit dwells, there he dwells. We should desire that good affections may be fixed in us. And how desirable to have a fixed sense of the love of God in Christ to our souls! How powerfully the apostle speaks of the love of Christ! The breadth shows its extent to all nations and ranks; the length, that it continues from everlasting to everlasting; the depth, its saving those who are sunk into the depths of sin and misery; the height, its raising them up to heavenly happiness and glory. Those who receive grace for grace from Christ's fulness, may be said to be filled with the fulness of God. Should not this satisfy man? Must he needs fill himself with a thousand trifles, fancying thereby to complete his happiness?

CONC:

Able Apprehend Breadth Christ Comprehend Deep Depth Fully God's Grasp Grasped Height Highth Length Love Order Power Saints Strength Strengthened Strong Wide

Able Apprehend Breadth Christ Comprehend Deep Depth God's Grasp Grasped Height High Highth Length Order Power Saints Strength Strengthened Strong Together Wide

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