What Does Ephesians 1:2 Mean?
Favor be to you, and wholeness, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus the Anointed One.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.THE KEY
Favor and wholeness are spoken directly to you, coming from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
THE MEANING
Favor is spoken toward you, and wholeness comes to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. These are named as gifts with a source beyond your own effort.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that you must produce wholeness by yourself gives way here: peace comes from God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
THE ROOT
χάρις
charis
GROWS FROM
χαρ-
char-
favor, gracious goodwill
The KJV word “grace” carries the sense of favor directed toward you. Its word family shows favor taking form as a freely given gift and as an act of granting.
ALSO GROWS
charizomai: to grant freely, show favor, or forgive
χαρίζομαι
Favor is not only an attitude; it can become a release or grant extended to someone.
charisma: a gift or favor freely given
χάρισμα
This branch makes visible how favor can arrive as something received.
εἰρήνη
eirēnē
GROWS FROM
εἰρην-
eirēn-
wholeness, peace
“Peace” here holds more than the absence of disturbance: it names wholeness addressed to you. Related words carry that wholeness into a way of living and a quality of life.
ALSO GROWS
eirēneuō: to live in peace or be at peace
εἰρηνεύω
The same word family lets peace describe an ongoing condition, not only a moment of calm.
eirēnikos: peaceable, characterized by peace
εἰρηνικός
Wholeness becomes a quality that can mark what a person or action is like.
THE PATTERN
God’s favor and wholeness reach people as gifts from their source.
The LORD make his face shine upon you, and bend toward you.The LORD lift up his face upon you, and give you wholeness.The favor of the Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, and the love of God, and the sharing in common of the Set-Apart Breath, be with you all. Amen.THE THREAD
For he is our wholeness, the one who made both one and loosed the middle wall of the fence.The same Greek word for peace appears here, where Christ himself is called “our peace.” Wholeness is not merely a calm feeling; it is also the mending of division.
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