Paul’s Prayer for the Ephesians
Ephesians 3:17
In 9 translations
- BSB
- so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,
- KJV
- That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
- WEB
- that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
- ASV
- that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
- LSV
- that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, having been rooted and founded in love,
- YLT
- that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,
- DBY
- that the Christ may dwell, through faith, in your hearts, being rooted and founded in love,
- DRC
- That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts; that being rooted and founded in charity,
- GNV
- That Christ may dwell in your heartes by faith:
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- κατοικῆσαι τὸν Χριστὸν διὰ τῆς πίστεως ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ὑμῶν ἐν ἀγάπῃ· ἐρριζωμένοι καὶ τεθεμελιωμένοι,
- RP2018
- κατοικῆσαι τὸν χριστὸν διὰ τῆς πίστεως ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ὑμῶν·
- TR-Boyd
- κατοικῆσαι τὸν Χριστὸν διὰ τῆς πίστεως ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ὑμῶν·
- SCR1894
- κατοικησαι τον χριστον δια της πιστεως εν ταις καρδιαις υμων
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
DwellPrayerIntercessionFaithParadoxTrine Immersion; Triune ImmersionFellowshipGround; GroundedPaschal Lamb, Typical Nature ofPrayer, Intercessory
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Cross-references most cited first
- Colossians 2:7rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
- John 14:23Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
- 1 John 4:16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
- Galatians 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.
- Romans 5:5And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
- Ephesians 2:21–22In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord. And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.
- Revelation 3:20Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.
- 1 John 4:4You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
- 2 Corinthians 6:16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
- Isaiah 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive…
- Colossians 1:23if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
- Colossians 1:27To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
- John 17:23I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.
- Luke 6:48He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid his foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the torrent crashed against that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
- John 14:17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14–15For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died. And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was…
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