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Ephesians 3:20-21 vs. “Far More Abundantly (Ephesians 3:20-21)”

Seeds Kids Worship (Seeds Family Worship) · checked 2026-09-05

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What we checked

PassageEphesians 3:20-21 chapter ↗
Translation shownBSB (Berean Standard Bible)
Presents itself asquotation
Categoryword-for-word ✓
AlbumThe Armor of God (Vol. 18) · 2023
Words addressed tonot addressed to God (sung about Him)
Teaching or experiencescripture set to music

Graded against the standard

Quotation criteria this song presents words as scripture, so these apply

✓Text-faithful
✓Translation named
✓Context kept

Applies to every song the Name held holy · God shown holy · true of God · the standard

✓Reverent treatment

✓ What's good

  • Both verses whole and in order, in the ESV's wording. Every repeated line is the passage's own words coming round again
  • The free chord chart credits the ESV and names the 2007 text edition, so a reader can open the exact text the song set
  • Verse 21 is the chorus. The part a child sings most is the part that gives the glory to God
  • The clause about God's power at work in us gets the pre-chorus and the whole bridge, so the promise never travels without its measure
  • The reference rides in the video title and in the track title, so the address stays attached to the words

⚠ Cautions

  • The YouTube upload names the reference but not the version. The ESV credit sits on the chord chart, the album page and the song list, so a viewer has to go looking
  • The video description marks that upload for home use only, and points to licensing links for church or group use

Verse Proof

Ephesians 3:20-21

The text in BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”

Paul is writing to readers at Ephesus, and these two verses close a prayer, not a paragraph of teaching. From 3:14 he has been asking: that they be strengthened with power through the Spirit in the inner self, that Christ dwell in their hearts, that they grasp the love of Christ, that they be filled with the fullness of God. At verse 20 he stops asking and starts praising. That matters for the wording, because the power named in verse 20 is the power he has just prayed for in verse 16. It is not power in general. It is the strength God is already supplying to the people he is praying for. The doxology also closes the first half of the letter. Chapter 4 turns from what God has done to how the readers should now walk.

WHAT THE SONG SINGS — Ephesians 3:20-21, complete and in order, ESV, with the version and its 2007 text edition both named on the publisher's chord chart

The song is the two verses, sung whole and in order, for children. The verse section takes verse 20 from its opening down through the words about what we ask, then sings that last stretch a second time. The pre-chorus is the rest of verse 20, the clause about God's power at work in us. The chorus is verse 21 entire, from the giving of glory through to the final word. A short tag repeats that final word four times. The bridge returns to the pre-chorus clause and sings it three more times. Then the chorus and its tag come back one more time, and the song ends there. The whole verse-through-chorus block runs twice before the bridge, with an instrumental between. Counted from the chart, the power clause is sung five times and verse 21 three times.

Every sung word comes from the passage. Checked against the publisher's own free chord chart, the first pass runs both verses in order. The repeats and the bridge bring the same words round again, none of them new: the bridge sings verse 20's power clause after verse 21 has been sung, then the chorus returns. No word comes from outside the two verses. Apart from the chord symbols, the section labels, and the chart's own header and credit lines, everything printed is verse text.

The wording is the English Standard Version's, and Seeds says so in four places on its own site and its own products. The free chord chart carries the Crossway credit line and names the text edition, 2007. The album page for *The Armor of God* states “Scripture Version: ESV.” The publisher's Scripture Reference Song List indexes the song as “Far More Abundantly: Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV.” The streaming release carries ESV inside the track title itself.

Nothing in the passage shifted. Both verses are complete, and they arrive in the order Paul wrote them. The repeats are the passage's own words coming round again, not new words. The one structural choice worth naming is where the song cuts. Verses 20 and 21 are a single sentence, and the song splits it at the sentence's own joints: the main clause becomes the verse, the clause naming God's power becomes the pre-chorus, and the giving of glory becomes the chorus. (The passage above is shown in a freely usable translation, because that is what this site quotes. The song sets the ESV, so the words above will not match the recording syllable for syllable. The BSB renders verse 20 as “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.” The song's title is the ESV's rendering of that same clause. Same sentence, different English.)

✓ Word-for-Word Verified: Both verses are sung whole and in order, in the ESV, and every repeated line comes from the passage itself. The publisher's own chord chart credits the ESV and names its 2007 text edition. No word outside Ephesians 3:20-21 appears in its printed lyric.
The half of this sentence people quote is the verse. The half that says who gets the glory is the chorus.

Why it matters

Verse 20 is the famous half of this sentence, and it is often quoted by itself. On its own it can sound like a promise that God will hand over more than you asked for. The sentence does not stop there. Verse 20 goes on to name the measure, God's power already at work in his people, and verse 21 names the point, which is glory to God in the church and in Christ Jesus. A setting that keeps all of it keeps the promise attached to both. This one does, and it gives the chorus to the half that usually gets left off.

Is it safe to dwell on?

Sung on repeat, this song fixes your attention on God.

Loop this one and what settles is a sentence that ends in God's glory. Almost every sung word is about him: the one who is able, the one the glory goes to, Christ Jesus, the generations it runs through. Two clauses point at people, what we ask and the power at work in us, and both exist to say what God exceeds and what God supplies. So the centre of attention reads as God, and the ending is the part that repeats. A child who has this memorized is not carrying the famous half by itself. They are carrying the ability, the power it runs on, and the glory it is for, in one sentence, in that order. Colossians 3:16 asks that the word of Christ dwell in us richly as we sing. What dwells here is a whole prayer's ending, which is praise.

Helpful comparison

The song's title is a good example of why the version has to be named. “Far more abundantly” is a translation-specific phrase, not a fixed English rendering of the verse. The BSB reads “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine” at the same place. Toggle the translation above and compare the clause for yourself. Somebody who learns the song and then opens a different Bible will find a clause that means the same thing and does not sound the same. Seeds handles that the way it usually does, by printing the credit line where the words are printed. The chord chart names the ESV and the 2007 text edition on the same page as the lyric, so the check takes one look rather than a search.

The release history is worth stating plainly, because two dates are in circulation. The recording came out first as a single in March 2022, credited to Seeds Kids Worship with Yancy. Seeds announced it as out on 21 March 2022, and the official video went up on the Seeds Kids Worship channel on 18 May 2022. The song was then collected as track 8 of *The Armor of God*, released 16 May 2023. The chord chart's copyright line reads 2022 and credits Jason Houser and Yancy Richmond.

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