Ephesians 5:32

5:32 This mystery is great – but I am actually ¹  speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

Ephesians 4:17

Live in Holiness

4:17 So I say this, and insist ²  in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility ³  of their thinking. ⁴ 

[5:32]  ¹ tn The term “actually” is not in the Greek text, but is supplied in the English translation to bring out the heightened sense of the statement.

[4:17]  ² tn On the translation of μαρτύρομαι (marturomai) as “insist” see BDAG 619 s.v. 2.

[4:17]  ³ tn On the translation of ματαιότης (mataioth") as “futility” see BDAG 621 s.v.

[4:17]  ⁴ tn Or “thoughts,” “mind.”