Ephesians 1:1,2
SALUTATION, PRAISE FOR THE BLESSINGS OF ETERNAL ELECTION, AND PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT. Address and salutation:... [ Continue Reading ]
SALUTATION, PRAISE FOR THE BLESSINGS OF ETERNAL ELECTION, AND PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT. Address and salutation:... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL, AN APOSTLE OF JESUS CHRIST BY THE WILL OF GOD, TO THE SAINTS WHICH ARE AT EPHESUS, AND TO THE FAITHFUL IN CHRIST JESUS:... [ Continue Reading ]
GRACE BE TO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD, OUR FATHER, AND FROM THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. Paul opens this epistle in his usual manner. As an apostle of Christ Jesus, of the exalted Lord, whose Messiahship was prophesied and manifested, he did not choose the office himself, but he was called thereto by the exp... [ Continue Reading ]
BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO HATH BLESSED US WITH ALL SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS IN HEAVENLY PLACES IN CHRIST;... [ Continue Reading ]
Doxology to God for the blessings of His love and grace:... [ Continue Reading ]
ACCORDING AS HE HATH CHOSEN US IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, THAT WE SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLAME BEFORE HIM IN LOVE;... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVING PREDESTINATED US UNTO THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BY JESUS CHRIST TO HIMSELF, ACCORDING TO THE GOOD PLEASURE OF HIS WILL,... [ Continue Reading ]
TO THE PRAISE OF THE GLORY OF HIS GRACE. Few passages in the Bible surpass these verses in lofty and sustained solemnity. The apostle's words are arrayed in stately grandeur: Blessed the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ. T... [ Continue Reading ]
The manifestation of God's grace according to His counsel:... [ Continue Reading ]
IN WHOM WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD, THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS, ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS GRACE;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREIN HE HATH ABOUNDED TOWARD US IN ALL WISDOM AND PRUDENCE;... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVING MADE KNOWN UNTO US THE MYSTERY OF HIS WILL, ACCORDING TO HIS GOOD PLEASURE, WHICH HE HATH PURPOSED IN HIMSELF;... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT IN THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULLNESS OF TIMES HE MIGHT GATHER TOGETHER IN ONE ALL THINGS IN CHRIST, BOTH WHICH ARE IN HEAVEN, AND WHICH ARE ON EARTH, EVEN IN HIM. The apostle here resumes the thought of v. 3, concerning the blessings which have been given to us in Christ: With which He has grac... [ Continue Reading ]
IN WHOM ALSO WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE, BEING PREDESTINATED ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE OF HIM WHO WORKETH ALL THINGS AFTER THE COUNSEL OF HIS OWN WILL;... [ Continue Reading ]
How the plan of God is carried out in the individual cases is nest shown by the apostle:... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT WE SHOULD BE TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY, WHO FIRST TRUSTED IN CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN WHOM YE ALSO TRUSTED, AFTER THAT YE HEARD THE WORD OF TRUTH, THE GOSPEL OF YOUR SALVATION; IN WHOM ALSO, AFTER THAT YE BELIEVED, YE WERE SEALED WITH THAT HOLY SPIRIT OF PROMISE,... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH IS THE EARNEST OF OUR INHERITANCE, UNTIL THE REDEMPTION OF THE PURCHASED POSSESSION, UNTO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY. In Christ God has brought together the sum total of all believers, united them under the one Head. And now the apostle continues: In Him, in whom we have been allotted (chosen), h... [ Continue Reading ]