Ephesians 4:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀληθεύοντες δὲ ἐν ἀγάπῃ, αὐξήσωμεν εἰς αὐτὸν τὰ πάντα, ὅς ἐστιν ἡ κεφαλή, ὁ Χριστός:

Transliteration

Alētheuontes de in agapē, we might auxēsōmen into auton all things, who is the kephalē, the Christos:

Grammar Details

*Alētheuontes*: present active participle, nominative masculine plural - speaking truth
*de*: postpositive particle - but/and/however
*agapē*: dative feminine singular - in love
*auxēsōmen*: aorist active subjunctive, 1st plural - we might grow
*auton*: accusative masculine singular - into him
*kephalē*: nominative feminine singular - head
*Christos*: nominative masculine singular - Christ

Word Meanings

*Alētheuontes*: speaking truth/being truthful/holding to truth
*agapē*: love (divine, selfless love)
*auxēsōmen*: might grow/increase
*kephalē*: head/authority/source
*Christos*: Christ/Anointed One

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Eph 4:25 : 25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Eph 1:22 : 22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
1 John 3:18 : 18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Eph 2:21 : 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
1 Pet 2:2 : 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
Eph 5:23 : 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Col 1:18-19 : 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Zech 8:16 : 16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
Ps 32:2 : 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
2 Cor 8:8 : 8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
Hos 14:5-7 : 5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. 6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. 7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Mal 4:2 : 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
Rom 12:9 : 9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Jas 2:15-16 : 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Judg 16:15 : 15 And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

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