Study Desk

To each one of you, however, hath favour been given, according to the measure of the free-gift of the Christ;

Wherefore he saith - Ascending on high, he took captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

Now this, He ascended; what is it, - save - that he also descended into the under parts of the earth?

He that descended, he, it is who also ascended over-above all the heavens, that he might fill all things;

And, he, gave - some, indeed, to be apostles, and some, prophets, and some, evangelists, and some, shepherds and teachers, -

With a view to the fitting of the saints for the work of ministering, for an upbuilding of the body of the Christ;

Until we all advance - into the oneness of the faith, and the personal knowledge of the Son of God, into a man of full-growth, into the measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;