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New Life Version

Ephesians 1:2

May you have loving-favor and peace from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Benedictions;   God;   Scofield Reference Index - Church;   Gospel;   Grace;   Holy Spirit;   Sanctification;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Church;   Peace;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Family Life and Relations;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Church;   Covenant;   Eternity of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Election;   Ephesians, Book of;   Greeting;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the New Testament;   Election;   Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Ephesians Epistle to the;   God;   Peace;   Peace (2);   Praise;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ephesians, Epistle to the;   Quotations, New Testament;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 25;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
King James Version (1611)
Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.
King James Version
Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
English Standard Version
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
New American Standard Bible
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
New Century Version
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Amplified Bible
Grace to you and peace [inner calm and spiritual well-being] from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Legacy Standard Bible
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Berean Standard Bible
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Contemporary English Version
I pray that God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to you and will bless you with peace!
Complete Jewish Bible
Grace to you and shalom from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
Darby Translation
Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.
Easy-to-Read Version
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Grace be with you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.
George Lamsa Translation
Peace be with you and grace from God our Father, and from our LORD Jesus Christ:
Good News Translation
May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.
Lexham English Bible
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Literal Translation
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
American Standard Version
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Bible in Basic English
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrew Names Version
Grace to you and shalom from God our Father and the Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.
International Standard Version
May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be yours!Galatians 1:3; Titus 1:4;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
peace be with you, and grace from Aloha our Father, and from our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.
Murdock Translation
Peace be with you, and grace from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Grace be with you, and peace, from God our father, & from the Lorde Iesus Christe.
English Revised Version
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
World English Bible
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
and to the faithful in Christ Jesus, Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Weymouth's New Testament
May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
grace be to you and pees of God, oure fader, and oure Lord Jhesu Crist.
Update Bible Version
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Webster's Bible Translation
Grace [be] to you, and peace from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ.
New English Translation
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!
New King James Version
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
New Living Translation
May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.
New Revised Standard
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Favour unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and Lord Jesus Christ.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Grace be to you and peace, from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Revised Standard Version
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Grace be with you and peace from God oure father and from the Lorde Iesus Christ.
Young's Literal Translation
Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Grace be with you and peace from God oure father, & fro the LORDE Iesus Christ.
Mace New Testament (1729)
grace be to you, and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Here's hoping that God doles out a mess of grace and peace on all of ya through Jesus.

Contextual Overview

1 This letter is from Paul. I am a missionary for Jesus Christ. God wanted me to work for Him. This letter is to those who belong to Christ in the city of Ephesus and to you who are faithful followers of Christ Jesus. 2 May you have loving-favor and peace from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Romans 1:7, 2 Corinthians 1:2, Galatians 1:3, Titus 1:4

Reciprocal: Psalms 85:8 - unto his Daniel 4:1 - Peace Luke 11:2 - Our Romans 15:13 - fill 1 Corinthians 1:3 - General Galatians 1:4 - our 1 Thessalonians 1:1 - Grace 2 Thessalonians 1:7 - his mighty angels Philemon 1:3 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 1:12
Plants grew out of the earth, giving their own kind of seeds. Trees grew with their fruit, and their kind of seeds. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the open space of the heavens to divide day from night. Let them tell the days and years and times of the year.
Job 26:7
He spreads out the north over empty waste, and hangs the earth on nothing.
Job 26:14
See, these are only a few of the things He does. And how quiet are the words spoken about Him! But who can understand His powerful thunder?"
Psalms 33:6
The heavens were made by the Word of the Lord. All the stars were made by the breath of His mouth.
Isaiah 45:18
This is what the Lord Who made the heavens, the God Who planned and made the earth, and everything in it and did not make it a waste place, but made it a place for people to live in, says, "I am the Lord, and there is no other.
Nahum 2:10
Everything has been taken from her! Yes, she is an empty waste! Hearts are melting in fear and knees are knocking! All bodies suffer, and all their faces turn white!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Grace be to you, and peace from God,....

:-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Grace to you, ... - see the notes, Romans 1:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ephesians 1:2. Grace be to youRomans 1:7; Romans 1:7.


 
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