Ephesians 4:1

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Παρακαλῶ οὖν ὑμᾶς ἐγὼ, ὁ δέσμιος ἐν Κυρίῳ, ἀξίως περιπατῆσαι τῆς κλήσεως ἧς ἐκλήθητε,

Transliteration

Parakalō oun you egō, the desmios in Kyriō, axiōs to peripatēsai of the klēseōs which you were eklēthēte,

Grammar Details

• *Parakalō*: present active indicative, 1st singular - I beseech/exhort/encourage
• *oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then
• you: accusative plural - direct object
• *egō*: personal pronoun, nominative - I/myself (emphatic)
• *desmios*: nominative masculine singular - prisoner/captive
• *Kyriō*: dative masculine singular - in/by the Lord
• *axiōs*: adverb - worthily/suitably
• *peripatēsai*: aorist active infinitive - to walk/conduct oneself
• *klēseōs*: genitive feminine singular - calling/invitation
• *eklēthēte*: aorist passive indicative, 2nd plural - you were called

Word Meanings

• *Parakalō*: beseech/exhort/encourage/urge
• *desmios*: prisoner/captive/one who is bound
• *Kyriō*: Lord/master
• *peripatēsai*: walk/conduct oneself/live
• *klēseōs*: calling/invitation/vocation
• *axiōs*: worthily/in a manner worthy of

Referenced Verses

• Col 1:10 : 10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• Phil 1:27 : 27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
• 1 Thess 2:12 : 12 {G2532} That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
• 1 Thess 4:1-2 : 1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. 2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
• 2 Pet 1:3 : 3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
• Eph 3:1 : 1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
• Gen 17:1 : 1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
• 1 Cor 4:16 : 16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
• Gal 4:12 : 12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
• 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• Phil 3:14 : 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
• Gen 5:24 : 24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
• Rom 12:1 : 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
• Phil 3:17-18 : 17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
• Eph 4:4 : 4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
• Eph 4:17 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
• Eph 5:2 : 2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
• 2 Cor 5:20 : 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
• 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
• 2 Cor 10:1 : 1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
• Jer 38:20 : 20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
• Acts 9:31 : 31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
• Rom 8:28-30 : 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
• 1 Pet 3:9 : 9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
• 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
• Col 2:6 : 6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
• 2 John 1:5 : 5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
• 2 Thess 1:11 : 11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
• 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
• Titus 2:10 : 10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
• Phlm 1:9-9 : 9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
• Heb 3:1 : 1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
• Heb 13:21 : 21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.