To all you that be at Rome beloved of God, called to be Saints: [a]Grace be with you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 1:7 God’s free good will: by peace, the Hebrews mean a prosperous success in all things.

To all in Rome who are loved by God(A) and called to be his holy people:(B)

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.(C)

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The Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians

1 After the salutation, 4 he entreateth of the free election of God, 5 and adoption. 7, 13 from whence man’s salvation floweth, as from the true and natural fountain: and because so high a mystery cannot be understood, 16 he prayeth that the full, 20 knowledge of Christ, may by God be reavealed unto the Ephesians.

Paul [a]an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the (A)Saints, which are at Ephesus, and to the [b]faithful in Christ Jesus:

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 1:1 The inscription and salutation, whereof we have spoken in the former Epistles.
  2. Ephesians 1:1 This is the definition of the Saints, showing what they are.

Paul, an apostle(A) of Christ Jesus by the will of God,(B)

To God’s holy people(C) in Ephesus,[a](D) the faithful(E) in Christ Jesus:

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 1:1 Some early manuscripts do not have in Ephesus.

22 In that body of his [a]flesh through death, to make you holy and unblameable, and without fault in his sight.

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  1. Colossians 1:22 In that fleshly body, to give us to understand that his body was not a fantastical body, but a true body.

22 But now he has reconciled(A) you by Christ’s physical body(B) through death to present you(C) holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation(D)

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[a]Knowing this, that the Law is not given unto a [b]righteous man, but unto the lawless and disobedient, to the ungodly, and to [c]sinners, to the unholy, and to the profane, to murderers of fathers and mothers, to manslayers,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 1:9 He indeed escapeth the curse of the Law, and therefore doth not abhor it, who fleeing and eschewing those things which the Law condemneth, giveth himself with all his heart to observe it: and not he that maketh a vain babbling of outward and curious matters.
  2. 1 Timothy 1:9 And such a one is he, whom the Lord hath endued with true doctrine, and with the holy Ghost.
  3. 1 Timothy 1:9 To such as make an art as it were of sinning.

We also know that the law is made not for the righteous(A) but for lawbreakers and rebels,(B) the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,

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The elder women likewise, that they be in such behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not subject to much wine, but teachers of honest things.

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Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers(A) or addicted to much wine,(B) but to teach what is good.

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