Ephesians 4:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;

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  • Eph 4:25 : 25 And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.
  • Eph 1:22 : 22 And he has put all things under his feet, and has made him to be head over all things to the church,
  • 1 John 3:18 : 18 My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.
  • Eph 2:21 : 21 In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;
  • Eph 5:23 : 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.
  • Col 1:18-19 : 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place. 19 For God in full measure was pleased to be in him;
  • Zech 8:16 : 16 These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.
  • Ps 32:2 : 2 Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.
  • 2 Cor 8:8 : 8 I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.
  • Hos 14:5-7 : 5 I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him. 6 I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon. 7 His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.
  • Jas 2:15-16 : 15 If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food, 16 And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this?
  • Judg 16:15 : 15 And she said to him, Why do you say you are my lover when your heart is not mine? Three times you have made sport of me, and have not made clear to me the secret of your great strength.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

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    19 And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.

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    20 For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

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    14 And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.