Suggested result
New International Version
Ephesians 4:12
to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up
Amplified Bible
Ephesians 4:12
[and He did this] to fully equip and perfect the saints (God’s people) for works of service, to build up the body of Christ [the church];
New Living Translation
Ephesians 4:12
Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ.
The Message
Ephesians 4:12-13
But that doesn’t mean you should all look and speak and act the same. Out of the generosity of Christ, each of us is given his own gift. The text for this is, He climbed the high mountain, He captured the enemy and seized the plunder, He handed it all out in gifts to the people. Is it not true that the One who climbed up also climbed down, down to the valley of earth? And the One who climbed down is the One who climbed back up, up to highest heaven. He handed out gifts above and below, filled heaven with his gifts, filled earth with his gifts. He handed out gifts of apostle, prophet, evangelist, and pastor-teacher to train Christ’s followers in skilled servant work, working within Christ’s body, the church, until we’re all moving rhythmically and easily with each other, efficient and graceful in response to God’s Son, fully mature adults, fully developed within and without, fully alive like Christ.
King James Version
Ephesians 4:12
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
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The Message
“You’re hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You’re like manicured grave plots, grass clipped and the flowers bright, but six feet down it’s all rotting bones and worm-eaten flesh. People look at you and think you’re saints, but beneath the skin you’re total frauds.
The Message
“You’re hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You build granite tombs for your prophets and marble monuments for your saints. And you say that if you had lived in the days of your ancestors, no blood would have been on your hands. You protest too much! You’re cut from the same cloth as those murderers, and daily add to the death count.
Amplified Bible
The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints (God’s people) who had fallen asleep [in death] were raised [to life];King James Version
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Amplified Bible
But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many people about this man, especially how much suffering and evil he has brought on Your saints (God’s people) at Jerusalem;King James Version
Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:
Amplified Bible
Peter’s Ministry
Now as Peter was traveling throughout the land, he went down to [visit] the saints (God’s people) who lived at Lydda.King James Version
And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda.
Amplified Bible
And he gave her his hand and helped her up; and then he called in the saints (God’s people) and the widows, and he presented her [to them] alive.King James Version
And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
Amplified Bible
And this is just what I did in Jerusalem; I not only locked up many of the saints (God’s people) in prison after receiving authority from the chief priests, but also when they were being condemned to death, I cast my vote against them.King James Version
Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
Amplified Bible
[I am writing] to all who are beloved of God in Rome, called to be saints (God’s people) and set apart for a sanctified life, [that is, set apart for God and His purpose]: Grace to you and peace [inner calm and spiritual well-being] from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.King James Version
To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
King James Version
And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
King James Version
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Amplified Bible
But for now, I am going to Jerusalem to serve the saints (Jewish believers).King James Version
But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.
Amplified Bible
For [Gentile believers in] Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints (Jewish believers) in Jerusalem.King James Version
For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.
Amplified Bible
[and pray] that I may be rescued from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints (Jewish believers) there;King James Version
That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;
King James Version
That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
King James Version
Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.
Amplified Bible
To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified (set apart, made holy) in Christ Jesus, who are selected and called as saints (God’s people), together with all those who in every place call on and honor the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:King James Version
Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's:
Amplified Bible
Lawsuits Discouraged
Does any one of you, when he has a complaint (civil dispute) with another [believer], dare to go to law before unrighteous men (non-believers) instead of [placing the issue] before the saints (God’s people)?King James Version
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
Amplified Bible
Do you not know that the saints (God’s people) will [one day] judge the world? If the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to try trivial (insignificant, petty) cases?King James Version
Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
Amplified Bible
for God [who is the source of their prophesying] is not a God of confusion and disorder but of peace and order. As [is the practice] in all the churches of the saints (God’s people),King James Version
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Amplified Bible
Instructions and Greetings
Now concerning the money collected for [the relief of] the saints [in Jerusalem], you are to do the same as I directed the churches of Galatia to do.King James Version
Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
King James Version
I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
Amplified Bible
Introduction
Paul, an apostle (special messenger, personally chosen representative) of Christ Jesus (the Messiah) by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God which is at Corinth, and to all the saints (God’s people) throughout Achaia (southern Greece):King James Version
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
Amplified Bible
begging us insistently for the privilege of participating in the service for [the support of] the saints [in Jerusalem].King James Version
Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
Amplified Bible
God Gives Most
Now it is unnecessary for me to write to you about the offering [that is to be made] for the saints [in Jerusalem];King James Version
For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
Amplified Bible
For the ministry of this service (offering) is not only supplying the needs of the saints (God’s people), but is also overflowing through many expressions of thanksgiving to God.King James Version
For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
