Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
For the perfecting (prov ton katartismon). Late and rare word (in Galen in medical sense, in papyri for house-furnishing), only here in N.T., though katartisiv in II Corinthians 13:9, both from katartizw, to mend (Matthew 4:21; Galatians 6:1). "For the mending (repair) of the saints."
Unto the building up (eiv oikodomhn). See Ephesians 2:21. This is the ultimate goal in all these varied gifts, "building up."
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Ephesians 4:12:
1 Corinthians 6:15
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