Ephesians 4:3
Good News Translation
Do your best to preserve the unity which the Spirit gives by means of the peace that binds you together.

New Revised Standard Version
making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Contemporary English Version
Try your best to let God's Spirit keep your hearts united. Do this by living at peace.

New American Bible
striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Ephesians 4:4 One body and one Spirit: as you are called in one hope of your calling.

John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

John 17:21-23 That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. . . .

Romans 14:17-19 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink: but justice and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no schisms among you: but that you be perfect in the same mind and in the same judgment.

1 Corinthians 12:12,13 For as the body is one and hath many members; and all the members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body: So also is Christ. . . .

2 Corinthians 13:11 For the rest, brethren, rejoice, be perfect, take exhortation, be of one mind, have peace. And the God of grace and of love shall be with you.

Colossians 3:13-15 Bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another. Even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:13 That you esteem them more abundantly in charity, for their work's sake. Have peace with them.

Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men and holiness: without which no man shall see God.

James 3:17,18 But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation. . . .

Context
Unity in the Body
2With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity. 3Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4One body and one Spirit: as you are called in one hope of your calling.…
Cross References
Ephesians 4:13
Until we all meet into the unity of faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ:

Colossians 3:14
But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection.

Ephesians 4:2
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