Ephesians 6:15

Amplified Bible

and having strapped on YOUR FEET THE GOSPEL OF PEACE IN PREPARATION [to face the enemy with firm-footed stability and the readiness produced by the good news].

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
On your feet wear the Good News of peace to help you stand strong.

Revised Standard Version
and having shod your feet with the equipment of the gospel of peace;

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and shood with showes prepared by the gospell of peace.

Hebrew Names Version
and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of shalom;

New American Standard Bible
and having strapped on your feet the preparation of the gospel of peace;

New Century Version
On your feet wear the Good News of peace to help you stand strong.

Update Bible Version
and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

Webster's Bible Translation
And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

English Standard Version
and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.

World English Bible
and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.

Weymouth's New Testament
as well as the shoes of the Good News of peace-- a firm foundation for your feet.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and youre feet schood in making redi of the gospel of pees.

English Revised Version
and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

Berean Standard Bible
and with your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace.

Contemporary English Version
Your desire to tell the good news about peace should be like shoes on your feet.

American Standard Version
and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

Bible in Basic English
Be ready with the good news of peace as shoes on your feet;

Complete Jewish Bible
and wear on your feet the readiness that comes from the Good News of shalom.

Darby Translation
and shod your feet with [the] preparation of the glad tidings of peace:

International Standard Version
and having put shoes on your feet so that you are ready to proclaim the gospel of peace.in readiness for the gospel of peace">[fn]Isaiah 52:7; Romans 10:15;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
and let your feet be shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

Murdock Translation
and defend your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace.

King James Version (1611)
And your feete shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace.

New Living Translation
For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the Good News so that you will be fully prepared.

New Life Bible
Wear shoes on your feet which are the Good News of peace.

New Revised Standard
As shoes for your feet put on whatever will make you ready to proclaim the gospel of peace.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And your feete shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace.

George Lamsa Translation
And have your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And shod your feet with the readiness of the glad-message of peace;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And hauyng your feete shodde, in the preparation of the Gospell of peace.

Good News Translation
and as your shoes the readiness to announce the Good News of peace.

Christian Standard Bible®
and your feet sandaled with readiness for the gospel of peace.

King James Version
And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

Lexham English Bible
and binding shoes under your feet with the preparation of the good news of peace,

Literal Translation
and having shod the feet with the preparation of the "gospel of peace." Isa. 52:7

Young's Literal Translation
and having the feet shod in the preparation of the good-news of the peace;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and shod vpo yor fete with the gospell of peace, that ye maye be prepared:

Mace New Testament (1729)
wing your feet with the gospel of peace:

New English Translation
by fitting your feet with the preparation that comes from the good news of peace,

New King James Version
and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

Simplified Cowboy Version
Put on boots that will carry the good news to the furthest pastures.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and having shod YOUR FEET WITH THE PREPARATION OF THE GOSPEL OF PEACE;

Legacy Standard Bible
and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [draw your strength from Him and be empowered through your union with Him] and in the power of His [boundless] might. ¹¹Put on the full armor of God [for His precepts are like the splendid armor of a heavily-armed soldier], so that you may be able to [successfully] stand up against all the schemes and the strategies and the deceits of the devil. ¹²For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places. ¹³Therefore, put on the complete armor of God, so that you will be able to [successfully] resist and stand your ground in the evil day [of danger], and having done everything [that the crisis demands], to stand firm [in your place, fully prepared, immovable, victorious]. ¹⁴So stand firm and hold your ground, HAVING TIGHTENED THE WIDE BAND OF TRUTH (personal integrity, moral courage) AROUND YOUR WAIST and HAVING PUT ON THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS (an upright heart), ¹⁵and having strapped on YOUR FEET THE GOSPEL OF PEACE IN PREPARATION [to face the enemy with firm-footed stability and the readiness produced by the good news]. ¹⁶Above all, lift up the [protective] shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. ¹⁷And take THE HELMET OF SALVATION, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. ¹⁸With all prayer and petition pray [with specific requests] at all times [on every occasion and in every season] in the Spirit, and with this in view, stay alert with all perseverance and petition [interceding in prayer] for all God's people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

your: Deuteronomy 33:25, Song of Solomon 7:1, Habakkuk 3:19, Luke 15:22

the gospel: Isaiah 52:7, Romans 10:15, 2 Corinthians 5:18-21

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:11 - loins Mark 6:9 - be shod Ephesians 5:16 - the days

Cross-References

Genesis 7:20
[In fact] the waters became fifteen cubits higher [than the highest ground], and the mountains were covered.

Deuteronomy 3:11
(For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the [giants known as the] Rephaim. Behold, his bed frame was a bed frame of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? It was nine cubits (12 ft.) long and four cubits (6 ft.) wide, using the cubit of a man [the forearm to the end of the middle finger].)

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace. The Gospel is so called, because it makes men to be of peaceable tempers and behaviour, and gives peace to distressed minds: it directs the way to eternal peace, and publishes peace made by the blood of Christ; and has a much better claim to this name, and epithet, than the law has, which is often called "peace" by the Jews l: the "preparation" of it does not design a promptitude or readiness to preach the Gospel, or to receive it, or profess it, or to give a reason of faith in it, or to endure reproach and persecution for it; nor that readiness which the Gospel is a means of, as for every good work, for the spiritual warfare, for the Christian's journey heavenward, or for heaven itself: but the word

ετοιμασια signifies a "base", or foundation; and so it is used by the Septuagint interpreters on Zechariah 5:11; and here it designs a firm and solid knowledge of the Gospel, as it publishes peace by Jesus Christ, which yields a sure foundation for the Christian soldier to set his foot upon, and stand fast on; it being that to him, as the shoe is to the foot, its base or foundation: and for the feet to be "shod with" it, does not mean the outward conversation being agreeably to the Gospel, though such a walk and conversation is very beautiful and safe, and such may walk and war with intrepidity: but it designs the constant and firm standing of believers in the faith of the Gospel, and so striving and contending for it, without being moved from it, that it may continue with them. Shoes or boots, which were sometimes of iron, and sometimes of brass, are reckoned among the armour of soldiers m.

l Zohar in Numb. fol. 73. 3. Tzeror Hammor, fol. 9. 3. m Pausan. l. 6. p. 362, 378. Julian. Orat. 2. p. 105. Alex. ab Alexandro, l. 6. c. 22.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And your feet shod - There is undoubtedly an allusion here to what was worn by the ancient soldier to guard his feet. The Greek is, literally, “having underbound the feet;” that is, having bound on the shoes, or sandais, or whatever was worn by the ancient soldier. The protection of the feet and ankles consisted of two parts:

(1) The sandals, or shoes, which were probably made so as to cover the foot, and which often were fitted with nails, or armed with spikes, to make the hold firm in the ground: or.

(2) With “greaves” that were fitted to the legs, and designed to defond them from any danger. These “greaves,” or boots 1 Samuel 17:6, were made of brass, and were in almost universal use among the Greeks and Romans.

With the preparation - Prepared with the gospel of peace. The sense is, that the Christian soldier is to be prepared with the gospel of peace to meet attacks similar to those against which the ancient soldier designed to guard himself by the sandals or greaves which he wore. The word rendered “preparation” - (ἑτοιμασία hetoimasia) - means properly readiness, fitness for, alacrity; and the idea, according to Robinson (Lexicon), is, that they were to be ever ready to go forth to preach the gospel. Taylor (Fragments to Calmet’s Dic., No. 219) supposes that it means, “Your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel; not iron, not steel - but patient investigation, calm inquiry, assiduous, laborious, lasting; or with “firm footing” in the gospel of peace.” Locke supposes it to mean,” with a readiness to walk in the gospel of peace.” Doddridge supposes that the allusion is to “greaves,” and the spirit recommended is that peaceful and benevolent temper recommended in the gospel, and which, like the boots worn by soldiers, would bear them safe through many obstructions and trials that might be opposed to them, as a soldier might encounter sharp-pointed thorns that would oppose his progress.

It is difficult to determine the exact meaning; and perhaps all expositors have erred in endeavoring to explain the reference of these parts of armor by some particular thing in the gospel. The apostle figured to himself a soldier, clad in the usual manner. Christians were to resemble him. One part of his dress or preparation consisted in the covering and defense of the foot. It was to preserve the foot from danger, and to secure the facility of his march, and perhaps to make him firm in battle. Christians were to have the principles of the gospel of peace - the peaceful and pure gospel - to facilitate them; to aid them in their marches; to make them firm in the day of conflict with their foes. They were not to be furnished with carnal weapons, but with the peaceful gospel of the Redeemer; and, sustained by this, they were to go on in their march through the world. The principles of the gospel were to do for them what the greaves and iron-spiked sandals did for the soldier - to make them ready for the march, to make them firm in their foot-tread, and to be a part of their defense against their foes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. Your feet shod — The κνημιδες, or greaves, have been already described; they were deemed of essential importance in the ancient armour; if the feet or legs are materially wounded, a man can neither stand to resist his foe, pursue him if vanquished, nor flee from him should he have the worst of the fight.

That the apostle has obedience to the Gospel in general in view, there can be no doubt; but he appears to have more than this, a readiness to publish the Gospel: for, How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth PEACE; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! Isaiah 52:7; Romans 10:15.

The lsraelites were commanded to eat the passover with their feet shod, to show that they were ready for their journey. And our Lord commands his disciples to be shod with sandals, that they might be ready to go and publish the Gospel, as the Israelites were to go to possess the promised land. Every Christian should consider himself on his journey from a strange land to his own country, and not only stand every moment prepared to proceed, but be every moment in actual progress towards his home.

The preparation of the Gospel — The word ετοιμασια which we translate preparation, is variously understood: some think it means an habitual readiness in walking in the way prescribed by the Gospel; others that firmness and solidity which the Gospel gives to them who conscientiously believe its doctrines; others, those virtues and graces which in the first planting of Christianity were indispensably necessary to those who published it.

Should we take the word preparation in its common acceptation, it may imply that, by a conscientious belief of the Gospel, receiving the salvation provided by its author, and walking in the way of obedience which is pointed out by it, the soul is prepared for the kingdom of heaven.

The Gospel is termed the Gospel of peace, because it establishes peace between God and man, and proclaims peace and good will to the universe. Contentions, strife, quarrels, and all wars, being as alien from its nature and design, as they are opposed to the nature of Him who is love and compassion to man.