may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—
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- 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;
- BSB will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth
- 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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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.
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- Ps 103:11–12For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
- Job 11:7–9“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
- Eph 1:18–23having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
- John 15:13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
- Ps 103:17But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;
- Eph 3:19and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
- Phil 2:5–8Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
- Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, 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 are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
- Titus 2:13–14looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;
- Eph 1:15For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,
- 1 Tim 1:14–16The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
- Ps 145:10All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh. Your saints will extol you.
- Rom 10:11–12For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”
- Rev 3:21He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
- Gal 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
- Phil 3:8–10Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
- Ps 139:6This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.
- Eph 1:10to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;
- Col 1:4having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,
- Ps 132:9Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!”
- 2 Chr 6:41“Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.
- Rom 10:3For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
- 1 Tim 3:16Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
- Ps 116:15Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.
- 2 Cor 13:13All the saints greet you.
- Deut 33:2–3He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
- Zech 14:5You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.
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