Ephesians 4:6

Bishops' Bible (1568)

One God, and father of all, whiche is aboue all, and through all, and in you all.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἷς Θεὸς καὶ Πατὴρ πάντων, ὁ ἐπὶ πάντων, καὶ διὰ πάντων, καὶ ἐν πᾶσιν ὑμῖν.

Transliteration

One Theos and Patēr of all, the one epi all, and dia all, and in all you.

Grammar Details

• *Theos*: nominative masculine singular - God
• *Patēr*: nominative masculine singular - Father
• all: genitive plural - of all (things/people)
• *epi*: preposition with genitive - over/above
• *dia*: preposition with genitive - through/by means of
• in all: dative plural - in/among all

Word Meanings

• *Theos*: God/deity
• *Patēr*: Father/ancestor
• *epi*: over/above/upon
• *dia*: through/by means of/throughout

Referenced Verses

• Rom 11:36 : 36 For of hym, and through hym, and for hym, are all thynges: To whom be glory for euer. Amen.
• Mal 2:10 : 10 Haue we not all one father? hath not God made vs al? why then is euery one deceaued of his brother, to violate the couenaunt of our fathers?
• 1 Cor 12:6 : 6 And there are diuers maners of operations, but God is one, which worketh all in all.
• Eph 3:17 : 17 That Christe may dwell in your heartes by fayth: that ye beyng rooted and grounded in loue,
• Eph 6:23 : 23 Peace be vnto the brethren, and loue, with fayth, from God the father, and from the Lorde Iesus Christe.
• 1 John 3:1-3 : 1 Beholde what loue the father hath shewed on vs, that we shoulde be called the sonnes of god: For this cause the worlde knoweth you not, because it knoweth not hym. 2 Dearely beloued, nowe are we the sonnes of God, and yet it doth not appeare what we shalbe: But we knowe that when he shall appeare, we shalbe lyke hym, for we shall see hym as he is. 3 And euery man that hath this hope in hym, purgeth hym selfe, euen as he also is pure.
• 1 John 3:24 : 24 And he that kepeth his commaundementes, dwelleth in him, and he in him: and hereby we knowe that he abideth in vs, euen by the spirite which he hath geuen vs.
• 1 John 4:12-15 : 12 No man hath seene God at any time. If we loue one another, God dwelleth in vs, and his loue is perfect in vs. 13 Hereby knowe we that we dwell in hym, & he in vs: because he hath geuen vs of his spirite. 14 And we haue seene, and do testifie that the father sent the sonne to be the sauiour of the worlde. 15 Whosoeuer confesseth that Iesus is the sonne of God, in him dwelleth God, and he in God.
• Rev 4:8-9 : 8 And the foure beastes had eche one of them sixe wynges about hym, and they were full of eyes within: and they had no rest day neither night, saying: Holy, holy, holy Lorde God almightie, which was, and is, and is to come. 9 And when those beastes gaue glorie, and honour, and thankes to hym that sate on the throne, which lyueth for euer and euer: 10 The xxiiij. elders fell downe before him that sate on the throne, and worshipped hym that lyueth for euer, and cast their crownes before the throne, saying: 11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receaue glorie, and honour, and power: for thou hast created all thynges, and for thy pleasures sake they are &
• 1 Cor 8:6 : 6 Yet vnto vs is there but one God, which is the father, of whom are all thinges, and we in him, and one Lorde Iesus Christe, by whom are al thinges, and we by him.
• 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 Or howe agreeth the temple of God with images? For ye are the temple of the lyuing God, as saide God, I wyll dwell in them, & walke in them & wyll be their God, & they shalbe my people.
• Gal 3:26-28 : 26 For ye are all the chyldren of God by fayth in Christe Iesu. 27 For all ye that are baptized, haue put on Christe. 28 There is no Iewe, neither Greke, there is neither bonde nor free, there is neither male, nor female: For ye are all one in Christe Iesu.
• Gal 4:3-7 : 3 Euen so we, when we were chyldren, were in bondage vnder ye rudimentes of the worlde: 4 But when the fulnesse of the tyme was come, God sent his sonne, made of a woman, and made vnder the lawe, 5 To redeeme them that were vnder the lawe, that we myght receaue the adoption of chyldren. 6 Because ye are sonnes, God hath sent the spirite of his sonne into your heartes, crying, Abba, father. 7 Wherfore thou art no more a seruaunt, but a sonne: If thou be a sonne, thou art also an heire of God, through Christ.
• Eph 1:21 : 21 Farre aboue all rule, and power, and myght, and dominion, and euery name that is named, not in this worlde only, but also in the worlde to come.
• Eph 2:22 : 22 In whom ye also are buylded together for an habitation of God through the spirite.
• Matt 6:9 : 9 After this maner therfore pray ye. O our father, which art in heauen, halowed be thy name.
• Matt 6:13 : 13 And leade vs not into temptation, but delyuer vs from euyll. For thyne is the kyngdome, and the power, and the glory, for euer. Amen.
• John 14:23 : 23 Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto hym: If a man loue me, he wyll kepe my sayinges: and my father wyll loue hym, and we wyll come vnto hym, and dwell with hym.
• John 17:26 : 26 And I haue declared vnto them thy name, and wyll declare it, that the loue wherewith thou hast loued me, may be in them, and I in them.
• John 20:17 : 17 Iesus saith vnto her: Touche me not, for I am not yet ascended to my father: But go to my brethren, and saye vnto them, I ascende vnto my father and your father, and to my God & your God.
• Gen 14:19 : 19 And blessed hym, saying: Blessed be Abram vnto the hygh God possessour of heauen and earth.
• Num 16:22 : 22 And they fell vpon their faces, and sayde: O God, the God of spirites of all fleshe, hath not one man sinned? Wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude?
• 1 Chr 29:11-12 : 11 Thyne O Lorde is greatnesse, and power, glory, victorie, and prayse: for all that is in heauen and in earth is thyne, and thyne is the kingdome O Lorde, and thou excellest aboue all, euen as the head of all. 12 And richesse and honour come of thee, and thou raignest ouer all, and in thyne hande is power & strength, and in thyne hand it is to make great and to geue strength vnto all.
• Ps 95:3 : 3 For God is a great Lorde: and a great kyng aboue all gods.
• Isa 40:11-17 : 11 He shall feede his flocke like an heardman, he shall gather the lambes together with his arme, and cary them in his bosome, and shall kyndly intreate those that beare young. 12 Who hath measured the waters in his fist? who hath measured heauen with his spanne, and hath comprehended all the earth of the worlde in three measures? who hath wayed the mountaynes and hylles in a ballaunce? 13 Who hath directed the spirite of the Lorde? or who gaue hym counsayle, and shewed hym? 14 Who is of his counsayle, and geueth hym vnderstandyng, and hath taught hym the path of iudgement? who taught hym cunnyng, and opened to hym the way of vnderstandyng? 15 Beholde, all people are in comparison of hym as a droppe of a bucket full, and are counted as the least thyng that the ballaunce wayeth: yea and the Isles he taketh vp as a very litle thyng. 16 Libanus is not sufficient to minister fire to his offeryng, and all the beastes therof are not inough for one sacrifice. 17 All people in comparison of hym are reckened as nothyng: yf they be compared with hym, lesse then nothyng, and as it that is not.
• Isa 40:21-23 : 21 Knowe ye nothyng? hearde ye neuer of it? hath it not ben preached vnto you since the beginning? haue ye not ben enfourmed of this by the foundation of the earth? 22 It is he that sitteth vpon the circle of the world, whose inhabiters are in comparison of him but as grashoppers: he spreadeth out the heauens as a couering, he stretcheth them out as a tent to dwell in. 23 He bringeth princes to nothing, and the iudges of the earth as though they were not.
• Isa 63:16 : 16 Yet art thou our father: for Abraham knoweth vs not, neither is Israel acquainted with vs: but thou Lorde art our father and redeemer, and thy name is euerlasting.
• Jer 10:10-13 : 10 But the Lorde is a true God, a liuing God, and an euerlasting kyng: if he be wroth, the earth shaketh, all the gentiles may not abide his indignation. 11 As for their gods thus shall you say to them, they are no gods that made neither heauen nor earth, therfore shall they perishe from the earth, and from all thinges vnder heauen. 12 But as for our God he made the earth with his power, and with his wisdome doth he order the whole compasse of the worlde, with his discretion hath he spread out the heauens. 13 At his voyce the waters gathered together in the ayre, he draweth vp the cloudes from the vttermost partes of the earth, he turneth lightning to raine, and bringeth foorth the windes out of their treasures.
• Dan 4:34-35 : 34 When this time was past, I Nabuchodonozor lift vp myne eyes vnto heauen, and mine vnderstanding was restored vnto me: then gaue I thankes vnto the highest, I magnified & praysed hym that liueth for euermore, whose power is an euerlasting power, and his kingdome is from one generatio to another. 35 And all they that dwel vpon the earth, are to be reputed as nothing, and according to his will he worketh in the armie of heauen, among the inhabitours of the earth: and there is none that may resist his hand, or say vnto him, what doest thou?
• Dan 5:18-23 : 18 O thou king, the most high god gaue vnto Nabuchodonozor thy father a kingdome, and maiestie, and honour, & glorie. 19 And for the maiestie that he gaue him, al people, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: he slue whom he would, he smote whom it pleased him: againe, whom he would he set vp, and whom he list he put downe. 20 But because his heart was loftie, and his minde strengthened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they toke his glory from him. 21 He was driuen out from the sonnes of men, his heart was made lyke the beastes, and his dwelling was with the wilde Asses, they fed him with grasse lyke Oxen, and his body was wet with the deawe of the heauen, till he knewe that the most hie God bare rule ouer the kingdome of men, and that he appoynteth ouer it whom so euer he pleaseth. 22 And thou his sonne, O Balthasar, hast not submitted thyne heart, though thou knewest all these thinges: 23 But hast lift vp thy selfe against the Lorde of heauen, so that the vessels of his house were brought before thee, that thou and thy princes, with thy wyues and concubines, might drinke wine thereout: and thou hast praysed the gods of siluer and golde, of brasse and iron, of wood and stone, which neither see, heare, nor vnderstand: As for the God in whose hande consisteth thy breath and all thy wayes, thou hast not glorified him.