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will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth
Ephesians 3:18 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,
  • KJV May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
  • NKJV may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—
  • NASB may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width 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 is.

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Quick answer

Paul prays they, with all the saints, would comprehend the vast dimensions of Christ's love. It seeks a fuller grasp of love's immensity together with the whole church.

Overview

Paul prays they would have power 'to comprehend with all the saints' the breadth, length, height, and depth — most naturally, of Christ's love. The phrase 'with all the saints' shows this is a corporate pursuit; love's fullness is grasped in fellowship with the whole church. Its dimensions are immeasurable, inviting endless exploration.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 28

  • Ps 103:11–12For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.
  • Job 11:7–9Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
  • Eph 1:18–23I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
  • John 15:13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
  • Ps 103:17But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—
  • Eph 3:19of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
  • Phil 2:5–8Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
  • Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
  • Isa 55:9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
  • Titus 2:13–14as we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.
  • Eph 1:15For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
  • 1 Tim 1:14–16And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
  • Ps 145:10All You have made will give You thanks, O LORD, and Your saints will bless You.
  • Rom 10:11–12It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
  • Rev 3:21To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
  • Gal 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
  • Phil 3:8–10More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
  • Ps 139:6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
  • Eph 1:10as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ.
  • Col 1:4because we have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints—
  • Ps 132:9May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.
  • 2 Chr 6:41Now therefore, arise, O LORD God, and enter Your resting place, You and the ark of Your might. May Your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and may Your godly ones rejoice in goodness.
  • Rom 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
  • 1 Tim 3:16By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.
  • Ps 116:15Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.
  • 2 Cor 13:13All the saints send you greetings.
  • Deut 33:2–3He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.
  • Zech 14:5You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him.

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Christ at the center

Every spiritual blessing is 'in Christ,' the head over all things for the church, in whom Jew and Gentile are made one new man by his blood.

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