Ephesians 4:11-16 NAS
And He gave
some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as
evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of
the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of
Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the
stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. As a result, we are
no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about
by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in
deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in
all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom
the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint
supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes
the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
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