इफिसियों 4
1 १ इसलिए मैं जो प्रभु में बन्दी हूँ तुम से विनती करता हूँ कि जिस बुलाहट से तुम बुलाए गए थे, उसके योग्य चाल चलो,
I summon you then, I the prisoner in the Lord, to live lives worthy of the calling to which you were called.
With all humility and gentleness and long-suffering forbear with one another in love;
and endeavor to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bonds of peace.
There is one body and one spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling.
There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.
And to each one of us was grace given according to the measure of the munificence of Christ.
Thus it is said, When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men.
Now surely this "he ascended" implies that he also descended into the lower part of the earth.
He who descended is he who ascended above the highest heaven, that he might fill the universe.
11 ११ और उसने कुछ को प्रेरित नियुक्त करके, और कुछ को भविष्यद्वक्ता नियुक्त करके, और कुछ को सुसमाचार सुनानेवाले नियुक्त करके, और कुछ को रखवाले और उपदेशक नियुक्त करके दे दिया।
It is he who made some men apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
in order to equip the saints for the work of serving, for the building up of the Body of Christ -
13 १३ जब तक कि हम सब के सब विश्वास, और परमेश्वर के पुत्र की पहचान में एक न हो जाएँ, और एक सिद्ध मनुष्य न बन जाएँ और मसीह के पूरे डील-डौल तक न बढ़ जाएँ।
till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the maturity of manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.
14 १४ ताकि हम आगे को बालक न रहें, जो मनुष्यों की ठग-विद्या और चतुराई से उनके भ्रम की युक्तियों की, और उपदेश की, हर एक वायु से उछाले, और इधर-उधर घुमाए जाते हों।
So we shall no longer be children, tossed up and down, and blown about by every wind of teaching, tricked by the craft of men in the snares of misleading error;
but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ.
16 १६ जिससे सारी देह हर एक जोड़ की सहायता से एक साथ मिलकर, और एक साथ गठकर, उस प्रभाव के अनुसार जो हर एक अंग के ठीक-ठीक कार्य करने के द्वारा उसमें होता है, अपने आपको बढ़ाती है कि वह प्रेम में उन्नति करती जाए।
From him the whole body (knit together and compacted by all its joints) makes continual growth of the body so as to build itself up in love, through the energy of his bounteous provision, according to the need of each several part.
17 १७ इसलिए मैं यह कहता हूँ और प्रभु में जताए देता हूँ कि जैसे अन्यजातीय लोग अपने मन की अनर्थ की रीति पर चलते हैं, तुम अब से फिर ऐसे न चलो।
This then I tell you and implore you in the Master’s name, to pass your lives no longer as the Gentiles do in the perverseness of their minds;
18 १८ क्योंकि उनकी बुद्धि अंधेरी हो गई है और उस अज्ञानता के कारण जो उनमें है और उनके मन की कठोरता के कारण वे परमेश्वर के जीवन से अलग किए हुए हैं;
having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.
These being past feeling have given themselves over to sensuality, in order to practise every form of impurity with greedy zest.
But you have not so learned Christ,
if indeed you have listened to him, and in him been taught the truth as it is in Jesus.
22 २२ कि तुम अपने चाल-चलन के पुराने मनुष्यत्व को जो भरमानेवाली अभिलाषाओं के अनुसार भ्रष्ट होता जाता है, उतार डालो।
You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive;
and to be made new in the spirit of your mind,
24 २४ और नये मनुष्यत्व को पहन लो, जो परमेश्वर के अनुसार सत्य की धार्मिकता, और पवित्रता में सृजा गया है।
and to put on the new self, created after God’s likeness, in the uprightness and holiness of the truth.
25 २५ इस कारण झूठ बोलना छोड़कर, हर एक अपने पड़ोसी से सच बोले, क्योंकि हम आपस में एक दूसरे के अंग हैं।
So then put away falseness and speak every man the truth to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
"Be angry and sin not"; let not the sun go down upon your anger.
Give the devil no place.
28 २८ चोरी करनेवाला फिर चोरी न करे; वरन् भले काम करने में अपने हाथों से परिश्रम करे; इसलिए कि जिसे प्रयोजन हो, उसे देने को उसके पास कुछ हो।
Let him who stole steal no more, but let him work, and in honest industry toil with his hands, so that he may have something to give to the needy.
29 २९ कोई गंदी बात तुम्हारे मुँह से न निकले, पर आवश्यकता के अनुसार वही निकले जो उन्नति के लिये उत्तम हो, ताकि उससे सुननेवालों पर अनुग्रह हो।
From your lips let no evil words come forth, but such as occasion warrants, such as are good for upbuilding and give a blessing to the hearers.
And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.
Banish from among you all bitterness and passion and anger and clamor and slander, as well as all malice;
32 ३२ एक दूसरे पर कृपालु, और करुणामय हो, और जैसे परमेश्वर ने मसीह में तुम्हारे अपराध क्षमा किए, वैसे ही तुम भी एक दूसरे के अपराध क्षमा करो।
and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ has forgiven you.
