George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ephesians 5:10
With solicitude seek out what things are pleasing to God, and carefully perform them. (Estius)
With solicitude seek out what things are pleasing to God, and carefully perform them. (Estius)
Verse 10. _PROVING WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE_] By walking in the light-under the influence of the Divine Spirit, according to the dictates of the Gospel, ye shall be able to _try_, and bring to _full_ _proof...
PROVING WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE UNTO THE LORD - That is,” Walk as children of light Ephesians 5:8, thus showing what is acceptable to the Lord.” Rosenmuller supposes that the participle is used here instea...
3. THE WALK IN HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS Chapter S 4:17-5:21 _ 1. Not as the Gentiles walk (Ephesians 4:17)_ 2. The putting off and putting on (Ephesians 4:20) 3. Followers of God (Ephesians 5
THE WAY OF LIGHT AND THE WAY OF DARKNESS. There are other sins which among God's people, should be literally unmentionable fornication, uncleanness, coveting, filthiness, foolish speech, improper jest...
THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. You must behave as children of the light, for the fruit of light consists in all benevolence and righteousness and truth. You must decide...
ACCEPTABLE. As in Romans 12:1. UNTO. to. LORD. App-98....
_proving_ Testing, by the touchstone of His declared and beloved Will; putting every action, and course of action unreservedly to that _proof_, and unreservedly _approving_, in action, all that passes...
10. These elements in character are to be guided in action by reference to the will of the Lord; cf. 1 John 5:2. This constant surrender of the will completes the thought of the offering of the whole...
17–5:14. THE GREAT CONTRAST Ephesians 4:25 to Ephesians 5:14. THE CONTRAST IN DETAIL...
ΔΟΚΙΜΆΖΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΔΟΚΙΜΆΖΩ (G1381) одобрять после исследования, организовывать и проводить испытание, принимать во внимание результаты испытания, проводить тщательное расследование,...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 5:3-20) 3. Walk as children of light. Ephesians 5:3-14. a. Things the children of light do not do. Ephesians 5:3-8 a. (1) Do no
Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. PROVING - construed with "walk" (; Romans 12:1). As we prove a coin by the eye and ear, and by using it; so, by accurate study and experimental trial, we m...
__ No Participation with Unbelievers 2 The sacrifice of Christ has many aspects. The opening Chapter s of Leviticus deal with these in detail. The sin and trespass offering seem to be entirely for m...
THE OLD DARKNESS AND NEW LIGHT. RULES FOR THE MARRIED 1, 2. In close connexion with what precedes. 'It is the mark of beloved children to become imitators of a loving Father; practise the self-sacrif...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 5 5:1-14 ~ LOVE 5:1-7 ~ LIVE IN LOVE V1 You must try to be as much like God as you can. You are his...
(3_b_) Ephesians 5:3 warn, with even greater fulness and emphasis, against the sins of impurity and lust, as incompatible with membership of the kingdom of heaven, as works of darkness, impossible to...
PROVING WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE UNTO THE LORD. — So in Romans 12:2, the “proving what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God,” is the fruit of transformation “in the renewing of the mind.” “To...
CHAPTER 22 DOCTRINE AND ETHICS Ephesians 4:25; Ephesians 5:1 The homily that we have briefly reviewed in the last chapter demands further consideration. It affords a striking and instructive exampl...
CHAPTER 23 THE CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT Ephesians 5:7 The contrast between the Christian and heathen way of life is now, finally, to be set forth under St. Paul's familiar figure of the light and the d...
A paragraph ruled by the general idea of the imitation of God in the forgiving love which has been appealed to in the preceding verse. In the light of that Divine example Paul charges his readers to f...
δοκιμάζοντες τί ἐστιν εὐάρεστον τῷ Κυρίῳ : _proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord_. The exhortation given in Ephesians 5:8, interrupted by the enforcement introduced in Ephesians 5:9, is now conti...
WALK AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT Ephesians 5:1 It is indeed a high calling to imitate God and to walk in love after the measure of Christ; but it will be impossible unless we open our innermost heart to the...
All that the apostle had been saying was emphasized by the statement of their relationship to God as he called them to be "imitators of God." Again he urged them to put off the old and put on the new....
Walking As Children of Light The Ephesian brethren had been involved in the wicked ways of darkness before they obeyed the truth. In Christ, they were light because sin had been put away. So, Paul adm...
(1) В¶ Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; (2) And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savo...
In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
I. INTRODUCTION A. As we return to the book of Ephesians, we continue our study on Christian behavior. 1. The Apostle Paul has just given the Ephesian Christians, (and us) a "list" of ungodly behavi...
Moreover, let us remark here, and it is an important feature in this picture of the fruits of grace and of the new man, that when the grace and love, which come down from God, act in man, they always...
PROVING WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE UNTO THE LORD. There are many things that are acceptable to God, as the person of Christ, his righteousness, sacrifice, sufferings, death, and mediation; the persons of his...
Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. Ver. 10. _Proving what is acceptable_] By the practice of what you know. Let your knowledge and obedience run parallel, mutually transfusing life and vigour...
_For ye were sometimes_ That is, _once; darkness_ In a state of total blindness and ignorance, without any light of instruction without, or divine grace within, and therefore had some excuse for livin...
PROVING; in an experimental way, by the actual subjection of yourselves to the will of God. See note to Romans 12:2....
PROVING WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE UNTO THE LORD....
The children of light avoid the works of darkness:...
WALK IN LOVE (vs.1-7) Verses 1 and 2 of chapter 5 are closely connected with verse 32 of chapter 4. God's gracious character of love that delights to have us as His dear children is our example. The...
CHAPTER 5 We must not follow the ways of the old man. We must be ______________ of God. He is our Father. We are his _____________. We must __________ in love because Christ loved us. He gave himsel...
“PROVING WHAT IS WELL-PLEASING UNTO THE LORD” “Proving”: “Always trying to find out what is pleasing to the Lord” (TCNT). While the life in sin is spent trying to find those things that please self,...
3-14 Filthy lusts must be rooted out. These sins must be dreaded and detested. Here are not only cautions against gross acts of sin, but against what some may make light of. But these things are so f...
Searching what the will of the Lord is, and approving it by your practice as the rule of your walking, ROMANS 12:2....
Ephesians 5:10 out G1381 (G5723) what G5101 is G2076 (G5748) acceptable G2101 Lord G2962 Proving -...
‘Proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.' ‘Proving.' (dokimazo). ‘Putting to the test, examining.' Everything we do and are must be brought to His light to be examined and tested. This does not mea...
Ephesians 5:10. PROVING; putting to a practical test. It seems best to take Ephesians 5:9 as parenthetical, and to join this participle with ‘walk' (Ephesians 5:8). WHAT IS WELL-PLEASING TO THE LORD,...
III. GENERAL CHRISTIAN DUTIES. This part of the Epistle is difficult to analyze. The ethical precepts are not arranged in any discoverable logical order. For convenience a division into two sections i...
_2. Precepts based upon the Self-sacrificing Love of Christ._ The connection of thought with chap. Ephesians 4:32 is very close; God's forgiving love is directly presented as a motive (‘therefore') fo...
PROVING (δοκιμαζοντες). Testing and so proving....
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye therefore followers of God,_ Or, imitators of God,- Ephesians 5:1. _As dear children;_ Children are naturally imitators. They are usually inclined to imitate their father; thi...
CONTENTS: Walk of the believer as God's child. The believer's warfare as filled with the Spirit. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: As members of the family of God, it is our duty to put on...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye followers of God as dear children,_ for children are expected to walk in their father's steps. He sends us rain and fruitful seasons, he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the...
WHAT PLEASES THE LORD. "Your life is a living sacrifice in praise to God! So you must learn what the Lord expects from you!...
_Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord._ THE RULE OF THE SAINT’S LIFE Darkness implies ignorance, for in deep darkness, where no object is recognizable, movement becomes impossible; as, for instan...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:10 The Bible gives general principles for life. Christians must also seek the wisdom to DISCERN how to apply those principles to their daily lives....
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:1 New Life in Love. Paul gives general instructions for holy living. Purity of life comes from avoiding evil deeds and relationships and adopting holy practices....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 5:3. LET IT NOT BE ONCE NAMED.—After the things themselves are dead let their names never be heard. Ephesians 5:4. NOR JESTING.—“Chastened insolence,” as Ar...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 5:1 BE YE THEREFORE IMITATORS OF GOD, AS CHILDREN BELOVED. These words are closely connected with the preceding. In Ephesians 4:32 he had urged the example of God in one very mo...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Ephesians, chapter 5. Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children (Ephesians 5:1); Now, the therefore immediately points you back, back to the last verse of...
1 Peter 2:20; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Samuel 17:39; 1 Thessalonians 5:21;...
Proving. Connect with walk. Walk, proving by your walk. Proving, see on 1 Peter 1:7. Acceptable [ε υ α ρ ε σ τ ο ν]. Rev., better and more literally, well - pleasing. The one point of all moral inves...
FOLLOWERS OF GOD Ephesians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening verse of today's chapter has a clear and clarion call to the children of God. It is something that we may not sidetrack or push aside....