Ephesians 3:18
ContextNET © | you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 1 |
NIV © | may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, |
NASB © | may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, |
NLT © | And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is. |
MSG © | you'll be able to take in with all Christians the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! |
BBE © | May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is, |
NRSV © | I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, |
NKJV © | may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height–– |
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NET © | you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 1 |
NET © Notes |
1 sn The object of these dimensions is not stated in the text. Interpreters have suggested a variety of referents for this unstated object, including the cross of Christ, the heavenly Jerusalem (which is then sometimes linked to the Church), God’s power, the fullness of salvation given in Christ, the Wisdom of God, and the love of Christ. Of these interpretations, the last two are the most plausible. Associations from Wisdom literature favor the Wisdom of God, but the immediate context favors the love of Christ. For detailed discussion of these interpretive options, see A. T. Lincoln, Ephesians (WBC), 207-13, who ultimately favors the love of Christ. |