Ephesians 4:20

Wesley's New Testament

But ye have not so learned Christ; Since ye have heard him,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But that is not how you came to know Christ,

King James Version (1611)
But ye haue not so learned Christ:

King James Version
But ye have not so learned Christ;

English Standard Version
But that is not the way you learned Christ!—

New American Standard Bible
But you did not learn Christ in this way,

New Century Version
But what you learned in Christ was not like this.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But you did not learn Christ in this way,

Legacy Standard Bible
But you did not learn Christ in this way—

Berean Standard Bible
But this is not the way you came to know Christ.

Contemporary English Version
But that isn't what you were taught about Jesus Christ. He is the truth, and you heard about him and learned about him.

Complete Jewish Bible
But this is not the lesson you learned from the Messiah!

Darby Translation
But *ye* have not thus learnt the Christ,

Easy-to-Read Version
But that way of life is nothing like what you learned when you came to know Christ.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But yee haue not so learned Christ,

George Lamsa Translation
But that is not what you have been taught about Christ;

Good News Translation
That was not what you learned about Christ!

Lexham English Bible
But you did not learn Christ in this way,

Literal Translation
But you have not so learned Christ,

Amplified Bible
But you did not learn Christ in this way!

American Standard Version
But ye did not so learn Christ;

Bible in Basic English
For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

Hebrew Names Version
But you did not learn Messiah that way;

International Standard Version
However, that is not the way you came to know Christ.

Etheridge Translation
But you have not thus learned the Meshiha,

Murdock Translation
But ye have not so learned the Messiah;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But ye haue not so learned Christe.

English Revised Version
But ye did not so learn Christ;

World English Bible
But you did not learn Christ that way;

Weymouth's New Testament
But these are not the lessons which you have learned from Christ;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But ye han not so lerud Crist, if netheles ye herden hym,

Update Bible Version
But you did not so learn Christ;

Webster's Bible Translation
But ye have not so learned Christ;

New English Translation
But you did not learn about Christ like this,

New King James Version
But you have not so learned Christ,

New Living Translation
But that isn't what you learned about Christ.

New Life Bible
But you did not learn anything like this from Christ.

New Revised Standard
That is not the way you learned Christ!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye, however, have, not thus, learned the Christ: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
But you have not so learned Christ:

Revised Standard Version
You did not so learn Christ! --

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But ye have not so learned Christ

Young's Literal Translation
and ye did not so learn the Christ,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But ye haue not so learned Christ,

Mace New Testament (1729)
but you have learned other things from Christ,

THE MESSAGE
But that's no life for you. You learned Christ! My assumption is that you have paid careful attention to him, been well instructed in the truth precisely as we have it in Jesus. Since, then, we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything—and I do mean everything—connected with that old way of life has to go. It's rotten through and through. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way of life—a God-fashioned life, a life renewed from the inside and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces his character in you.

Simplified Cowboy Version
But that isn't what Jesus taught us.

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles, in the vanity of your mind: ¹⁸ Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, by the ignorance that is in them, through the hardness of their hearts: ¹⁹ Who being past feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. ²⁰ But ye have not so learned Christ; Since ye have heard him, ²¹ and been taught by him, (as the truth is in Jesus) To put off, ²² concerning your former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt, according to the deceitful desires: ²³ To be renewed in the spirit of your mind; ²⁴ And to put on the new man, which is created after God, in righteousness and true holiness. ²⁵ Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour; for we are members one of another. ²⁶ Be ye angry, and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 24:47, John 6:45, Romans 6:1, Romans 6:2, 2 Corinthians 5:14, 2 Corinthians 5:15, Titus 2:11-14, 1 John 2:27

Reciprocal: Psalms 25:5 - teach Psalms 26:3 - and Psalms 119:102 - for thou Matthew 11:29 - and learn Matthew 28:20 - them Acts 5:42 - preach Ephesians 5:3 - fornication Philippians 4:12 - I am Colossians 2:8 - after Christ 1 Thessalonians 4:1 - by the

Cross-References

John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and your will is, to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth; for there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Hebrews 11:9
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint heirs of the same promise.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But ye have not so learned Christ,.... Some distinguish these words, and make two propositions of them, "but ye not so", or "ye are not so, ye have learned Christ"; the first of these propositions has respect to what goes before, and suggests that regenerate persons are not as other men: they do not walk in the vanity of their minds as others, their minds are not empty and vain; but are filled with God, with a saving knowledge of God in Christ, with the fear and love of God, and with Christ, with a spiritual knowledge of him, with faith in him and love to him, and with the Spirit, with his graces and fruits of righteousness; and though there is a great deal of vanity, instability, treachery, and sinfulness in them, yet their walk and the course of their conversation is not according to this: nor are their understandings darkened as others; they are enlightened to see their lost state and condition by nature, the plague of their own hearts, the insufficiency of their own righteousness, the way of life and salvation by Christ, and that salvation from first to last is all of grace; they have some light into the doctrines of the gospel, and have some glimpse of glory; and their light is of an increasing nature: they are not alienated from the life of God as others, but live a life of communion with him, a life of faith upon him, and a life of holiness according to his mind; they are not past feeling as others, they are sensible of sin, and are often pressed down with the weight of it, and groan, being burdened by it; they cannot sin with that delight and pleasure as others do, nor will they plead for it, but confess it with shame and sorrow; nor do they give up themselves to it, and continue in it, and in an insatiable pursuit of it: the reason of all which is, they "have learned Christ": so as to know him as God over all blessed for ever; as the Lord and heir of all things; as the Alpha and Omega of the covenant of grace; as intrusted with all that is near and dear to his Father; as the Father's free gift to men, and as the sinner's Saviour; as the way of access to God and acceptance with him; as the church's head and husband; as the saints' prophet, priest, and King, and as the only Mediator between God and men; and so as to receive him, believe in him, and commit their souls unto him; and so as to embrace his truths, and submit to his ordinances: and this lesson they learn, not in the book and school of nature, nor of carnal reason, nor of the law; but in the book of the covenant, and of the Scripture; and in the school of the church, and under the ministry of the Gospel; for the ministers of the Gospel are the instructors, the instruments of teaching; though the Spirit of God is the efficient cause, the anointing which teacheth all things, and leads into all truth, as it is in Jesus: and this lesson being truly learnt, will teach men to walk differently from others; to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But ye have not so learned Christ - You have been taught a different thing by Christ; you have been taught that his religion requires you to abandon such a course of life.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 20. But ye have not so learned Christ — Ye have received the doctrines of Christianity, and therefore are taught differently; ye have received the Spirit of Christ, and therefore are saved from such dispositions. Some would point and translate the original thus: Ὑμεις δε ουχ οὑτως· εμαθετε τον Χριστον· But ye are not thus; ye have learned Christ.