Ephesians 4:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eph 1:13 : 13 And when you heard the word of truth(the gospel of your salvation)– when you believed in Christ– you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit,
  • 1 John 5:10-12 : 10 (The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.) 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
  • Col 2:7 : 7 rooted and built up in him and firm in your faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
  • Heb 3:7-8 : 7 Exposition of Psalm 95: Hearing God’s Word in Faith Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! 8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.
  • Ps 45:4 : 4 Appear in your majesty and be victorious! Ride forth for the sake of what is right, on behalf of justice! Then your right hand will accomplish mighty acts!
  • Ps 85:10-11 : 10 Loyal love and faithfulness meet; deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. 11 Faithfulness grows from the ground, and deliverance looks down from the sky.
  • Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said,“This is my one dear Son, in whom I take great delight. Listen to him!”
  • Luke 10:16 : 16 “The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
  • John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.
  • John 10:27 : 27 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus replied,“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
  • John 14:17 : 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.
  • Acts 3:22-23 : 22 Moses said,‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must obey him in everything he tells you. 23 Every person who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed from the people.’
  • 2 Cor 1:20 : 20 For every one of God’s promises are“Yes” in him; therefore also through him the“Amen” is spoken, to the glory we give to God.
  • 2 Cor 11:10 : 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

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  • Eph 4:20
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    20But you did not learn about Christ like this,

  • Eph 4:22-25
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    22You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

    23to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

    24and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image– in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth.

    25Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

  • Col 2:6-8
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    6Warnings Against the Adoption of False Philosophies Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,

    7rooted and built up in him and firm in your faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

    8Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

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    13until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God– a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature.

    14So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

    15But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

  • 2 Tim 3:14-15
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    14You, however, must continue in the things you have learned and are confident about. You know who taught you

    15and how from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Col 1:4-7
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    4since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.

    5Your faith and love have arisen from the hope laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel

    6that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.

    7You learned the gospel from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave– a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf–

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    6By pointing out such things to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, having nourished yourself on the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed.

  • Eph 4:17
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    17Live in Holiness So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

  • Eph 1:13
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    13And when you heard the word of truth(the gospel of your salvation)– when you believed in Christ– you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit,

  • Col 1:23
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    23if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.

  • 2 Tim 1:13
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    13Hold to the standard of sound words that you heard from me and do so with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

  • 1 Cor 1:6
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    6just as the testimony about Christ has been confirmed among you–

  • Phil 4:9
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    9And what you learned and received and heard and saw in me, do these things. And the God of peace will be with you.

  • 1 Thess 4:1-2
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    1A Life Pleasing to God Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God(as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more.

    2For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

  • Col 3:9-10
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    9Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices

    10and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it.

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    7You also lived your lives in this way at one time, when you used to live among them.

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    14and not pay attention to Jewish myths and commands of people who reject the truth.

  • Gal 5:7
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    7You were running well; who prevented you from obeying the truth?

  • Gal 4:9
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    9But now that you have come to know God(or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

  • 1 Tim 6:3
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    3If someone spreads false teachings and does not agree with sound words(that is, those of our Lord Jesus Christ) and with the teaching that accords with godliness,

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    4so that you may know for certain the things you were taught.

  • Col 2:20
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    20If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

  • Eph 2:1
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    1New Life Individually And although you were dead in your offenses and sins,

  • Phil 3:15
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    15Therefore let those of us who are“perfect” embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.

  • Eph 3:4
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    4When reading this, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ

  • Gal 3:26-27
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    26For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.

    27For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

  • Col 1:27-28
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    27God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

    28We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ.

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    1Justification by Law or by Faith? You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!

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    4I say this so that no one will deceive you through arguments that sound reasonable.

  • 2 John 1:4
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    4I rejoiced greatly because I have found some of your children living according to the truth, just as the Father commanded us.

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9Everyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.

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    8for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light–

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

  • 1 Cor 4:15
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    15For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.