NET Bible
"But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head."
— Ephesians 4:15, NET Bible
“But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:”
“but speaking truth in love, may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ; ”
“but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;”
“But doing the truth in charity, we may in all things grow up in him who is the head, even Christ:”
“But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;”
“But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:”
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,
until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God– a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature.
So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.
But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.
From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body builds itself up in love.
Live in Holiness So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.