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Ephesians 4:11

Ephesians chapter 4 · verse 11 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

Context

v.10He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)

v.11This passage

v.12for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Romans 12:7

    or ministry, let us give ourselves to our ministry; or he that teacheth, to his teaching;

  • Revelation 21:14

    And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

  • Matthew 28:20

    teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.

  • 1 Peter 5:1

    The elders therefore among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

  • Hebrews 5:12

    For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

  • Acts 13:1

    Now there were at Antioch, in the church that wasthere, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.