Ephesians 4:14-16

1599 Geneva Bible

Footnotes

1. Ephesians 4:14 Betwixt our childhood (that is to say, a very weak state, while as we do yet altogether waiver) and our perfect age, which we shall have at length in another world, there is a mean, to wit, our youth, and steady going forward to perfection.
2. Ephesians 4:14 He compareth them which rest not themselves upon the word of God, to little boats which are tossed hither and thither with the doctrines of men, as it were with contrary winds, and therewithall forewarneth them that it cometh to pass not only by the lightness of man’s brain, but also by the craftiness of certain, which make as it were an art of it.
3. Ephesians 4:14 With those uncertain chances which toss men to and fro.
4. Ephesians 4:14 By the deceit of those men which are very well practised in deceiving of others.
5. Ephesians 4:15 By earnest affection of the truth and love, we grow up into Christ: for he (being effectual by the ministry of his word, which as the vital spirit doth so quicken the whole body, that it nourisheth all the limbs thereof according to the measure and proportion of each one) quickeneth and cherisheth his Church, which consisteth of divers functions, as of divers members, and preserveth the proportion of every one. And thereof it followeth that neither this body can live without Christ, neither can any man grow up spiritually, which separateth himself from the other members.
6. Ephesians 4:16 Of Christ, who in manner of the soul, quickeneth all the members.
7. Ephesians 4:16 Such increase as is meet the body should have.
8. Ephesians 4:16 Charity is the knitting of the limbs together.