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May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
Ephesians 3:18 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,
  • BSB will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth
  • 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 the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
  • Job 11:7–9Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
  • Eph 1:18–23The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
  • John 15:13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
  • Ps 103:17But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
  • Eph 3:19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
  • Phil 2:5–8Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
  • Gal 2:20I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
  • Isa 55:9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
  • Titus 2:13–14Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
  • Eph 1:15Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
  • 1 Tim 1:14–16And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
  • Ps 145:10All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.
  • Rom 10:11–12For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
  • Rev 3:21To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
  • Gal 3:13Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
  • Phil 3:8–10Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
  • Ps 139:6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
  • Eph 1:10That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
  • Col 1:4Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
  • Ps 132:9Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
  • 2 Chr 6:41Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
  • Rom 10:3For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
  • 1 Tim 3:16And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
  • Ps 116:15Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
  • 2 Cor 13:13All the saints salute you.
  • Deut 33:2–3And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
  • Zech 14:5And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.

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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.

How Ephesians 3:18 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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