🛡️WEB · Ephesians 4:6
What does Ephesians 4:6 mean?
"one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all."
— Ephesians 4:6 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;
one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.
But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.”
Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
Explanation
Ephesians 4:6 comes at the climax of a short but powerful list in which Paul piles up the word "one" to describe the unity that binds Christians together: one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and finally one God and Father of all. In plain language, the verse is saying that there is only one true God, and this God is Father over everyone and everything. He is "over all" in the sense of ruling and reigning supreme; he is "through all" in the sense of sustaining and working in and through the wh
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