Ephesians 1:2

Peace be with you, and grace from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

In Context

1PAUL, a legate of Jesus the Messiah by the pleasure of God, to them who are at Ephesus, sanctified, and believing in Jesus the Messiah:

3Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who hath blessed us with all blessings of the Spirit in heaven, by the Messiah:

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Cross References

Romans 1:7to all those who are at Rome, beloved of God, called and sanctified: Peace and grace be with you, from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Messiah.

Galatians 1:3Grace be with you, and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah;

Matthew Henry on Ephesians 1:2-3

Ephesians Some think that this epistle to the Ephesians was a circular letter sent to several churches, and that the copy directed to the Ephesians happened to be taken into the canon, and so it came to bear that particular inscription. And they have been induced the rather to think this because it is the only one of all Paul's epistles that has nothing in it peculiarly adapted to the state or case of that particular church; but it has much of common concernment to all Christians, and especially to all who, having… Read the whole commentary →

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