OET interlinear EPH 4:14

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-goal

ἵνα

in_order_that

The connecting phrase so that introduces a goal relationship. The goal or purpose of gifted people in the church is to bring all the believers to spiritual maturity.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

μηκέτι ὦμεν νήπιοι

no_longer ˱we˲_may_be infants

Paul refers to believers who have not grown spiritually as if they were children who have had very little experience in life. Alternate translation: “we may no longer be like children”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

κλυδωνιζόμενοι καὶ περιφερόμενοι παντὶ ἀνέμῳ τῆς διδασκαλίας

being_tossed_by_waves and /being/_carried_about ˱by˲_every wind ¬the ˱of˲_teaching

Paul speaks of a believer who has not become mature and follows various wrong teachings as if that believer were a boat and the teachings were the wind and waves that move the boat in different directions on the water. See the UST.

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

ἐν τῇ κυβίᾳ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἐν πανουργίᾳ πρὸς τὴν μεθοδίαν τῆς πλάνης

in the in (Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἵνα μηκέτι ὦμεν νήπιοι κλυδωνιζόμενοι καὶ περιφερόμενοι παντὶ ἀνέμῳ τῆς διδασκαλίας ἐν τῇ κυβείᾳ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐν πανουργίᾳ πρὸς τὴν μεθοδείαν τῆς πλάνης)

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea behind the words trickery, cleverness, and scheming, you could express the same ideas with verbal forms. Alternate translation: “by crafty people who trick believers with clever lies”