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Eph. 4:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

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one body.

Eph. 2:16• ¹⁶and might reconcile both in one body to God by the cross, having by it slain the enmity; (Eph. 2:16)

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Eph. 5:30• ³⁰for we are members of his body; we are of his flesh, and of his bones. (Eph. 5:30)

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Rom. 12:4‑5• ⁴For, as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office;
⁵thus we, being many, are one body in Christ, and each one members one of the other. (Rom. 12:4‑5)

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1 Cor. 10:17• ¹⁷Because we, being many, are one loaf, one body; for we all partake of that one loaf. (1 Cor. 10:17)

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1 Cor. 12:12‑13,20• ¹²For even as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.
¹³For also in the power of one Spirit *we* have all been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or free, and have all been given to drink of one Spirit.
²⁰But now the members are many, and the body one. (1 Cor. 12:12‑13,20)

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Col. 3:15• ¹⁵And let the peace of Christ preside in your hearts, to which also ye have been called in one body, and be thankful. (Col. 3:15)

one Spirit.

Eph. 2:18,22• ¹⁸For through him we have both access by one Spirit to the Father.
²²in whom *ye* also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit. (Eph. 2:18,22)

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Matt. 28:19• ¹⁹Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; (Matt. 28:19)

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1 Cor. 12:4‑11• ⁴But there are distinctions of gifts, but the same Spirit;
⁵and there are distinctions of services, and the same Lord;
⁶and there are distinctions of operations, but the same God who operates all things in all.
⁷But to each the manifestation of the Spirit is given for profit.
⁸For to one, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
⁹and to a different one faith, in the power of the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healing in the power of the same Spirit;
¹⁰and to another operations of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; and to a different one kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues.
¹¹But all these things operates the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each in particular according as he pleases. (1 Cor. 12:4‑11)

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2 Cor. 11:4• ⁴For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye get a different Spirit, which ye have not got, or a different glad tidings, which ye have not received, ye might well bear with it. (2 Cor. 11:4)

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Eph. 4:1• ¹*I*, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you therefore to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called, (Eph. 4:1)

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Eph. 1:18• ¹⁸being enlightened in the eyes of your heart, so that ye should know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, (Eph. 1:18)

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Jer. 14:8• ⁸Thou hope of Israel, its Saviour in the time of trouble, why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a traveller that turneth aside to stay a night? (Jer. 14:8)

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Jer. 17:7• ⁷Blessed is the man that confideth in Jehovah, and whose confidence Jehovah is. (Jer. 17:7)

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Acts 15:11• ¹¹But we believe that we shall be saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same manner as they also. (Acts 15:11)

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Col. 1:5• ⁵on account of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens; of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the glad tidings, (Col. 1:5)

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2 Thess. 2:16• ¹⁶But our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us, and given us eternal consolation and good hope by grace, (2 Thess. 2:16)

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1 Tim. 1:1• ¹Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the command of God our Saviour, and of Christ Jesus our hope, (1 Tim. 1:1)

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Titus 1:2• ²in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time, (Titus 1:2)

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Titus 2:13• ¹³awaiting the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ; (Titus 2:13)

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Titus 3:7• ⁷that, having been justified by *his* grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:7)

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Heb. 6:18‑19• ¹⁸that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,
¹⁹which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into that within the veil, (Heb. 6:18‑19)

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1 Peter 1:3‑4,21• ³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his great mercy, has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from among the dead,
⁴to an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance, reserved in the heavens for you,
²¹who by him do believe on God, who has raised him from among the dead and given him glory, that your faith and hope should be in God. (1 Peter 1:3‑4,21)

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1 John 3:3• ³And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as *he* is pure. (1 John 3:3)

• This is the essential, real, and abiding unity. (“Ephesians 4-5” by J.N. Darby)

• The fourth verse is one character of unity, the fifth another, and the sixth a third; and these concentric unities enlarge respectively. (“Remarks on Ephesians 4:1-6” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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There is one bodyd and one Spirit, as ye have been also called in one hope of your calling;

JND Translation Notes

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It may be translated "[the] body is one," and so on. If we could leave out "there is" or "is", the force would be so much the greater.

W. Kelly Translation

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one body and one Spirit, even as ye were also called in one hope of your calling;