Ephesians 4:3

Ephesians 4:3

Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

a. NLT: Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace.

b. NIV: Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

c. YLT: Being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;

d. Amplified Bible Classic: Be eager and strive earnestly to guard and keep the harmony and oneness of [and produced by] the Spirit in the binding power of peace.

e. Worrell Translation: Earnestly endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

    

f. Wuest Translation: Doing your best to safeguard the unanimity of the Spirit, in the bond of peace.

g. Peshitta Eastern Text: Endeavoring to preserve the harmony of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

1. “Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”

a. Endeavoring [Strong: 4704 spoudazo spoo-dad'-zo from 4710; to use speed, i.e. to make effort, be 

prompt or earnest:--do (give) diligence, be diligent (forward), endeavour, labour, study.]

b. to keep [Strong: 5083 tereo tay-reh'-o from teros (a watch; perhaps akin to 2334); to guard (from loss or injury, properly, by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from 5442, which is properly to prevent escaping; and from 2892, which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus), i.e. to note (a prophecy; figuratively, to fulfil a command); by implication, to detain (in custody; figuratively, to maintain); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried):--hold fast, keep(- er), (pre-, re-)serve, watch.]

c. the [Strong: 3588 ho ho, including the feminine he hay, and the neuter to to in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.]

d. unity [Strong: 1775 henotes hen-ot-ace' from 1520; oneness, i.e. (figuratively) unanimity:--unity.]

e. [of] the [Strong: 3588 ho ho, including the feminine he hay, and the neuter to to in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.]

f. Spirit [Strong: 4151 pneuma pnyoo'-mah from 4154; a current of air, i.e. breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively, a spirit, i.e. (human) the rational soul, (by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc., or (superhuman) an angel, demon, or (divine) God, Christ's spirit, the Holy Spirit:--ghost, life, spirit(-ual, -ually), mind.]

g. in [Strong: 1722 en en a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537); "in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.:--about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+ all means), for (... sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on), through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while, with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition.]

h. the [Strong: 3588 ho ho, including the feminine he hay, and the neuter to to in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.]

i. bond [Strong: 4886 sundesmos soon'-des-mos from 4862 and 1199; a joint tie, i.e. ligament, (figuratively) uniting principle, control:--band, bond.]

    

j. of peace [Strong: 1515 eirene i-ray'-nay probably from a primary verb eiro (to join); peace (literally or figuratively); by implication, prosperity:--one, peace, quietness, rest, + set at one again.]