Ephesians 4:2
With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
In Context
3Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Cross References
Numbers 12:3(For Moses was a man exceeding meek above all men that dwelt upon earth)
Psalms 138:6Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.
Proverbs 16:19It is better to be humbled with the meek, than to divide spoils with the proud.
Isaiah 61:1The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up.
Zechariah 9:9Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Matthew 11:29Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: and you shall find rest to your souls.
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 4:2
Consistency Enforced. ( a. d. 61.) 1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, This is a general exhortation to walk as becomes our Christian profession. Paul was now a prisoner at Rome; and he was the prisoner of the Lord, or in the Lord, which signifies as much as for the Lord. See of this, ch. iii. 1 . He mentions this once and again, to show that he was not ashamed of his bonds, well knowing that he suffered not as an evil doer: and likewise… Read the whole commentary →