Ephesians 2:1-3
THE CHURCH AS THE SUM TOTAL OF MEN SAVED BY GRACE. The natural condition of man:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHURCH AS THE SUM TOTAL OF MEN SAVED BY GRACE. The natural condition of man:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND YOU HATH HE QUICKENED, WHO WERE DEAD IN TRESPASSES AND SINS;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREIN IN TIME PAST YE WALKED ACCORDING TO THE COURSE OF THIS WORLD, ACCORDING TO THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR, THE SPIRIT THAT NOW WORKETH IN THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE;... [ Continue Reading ]
AMONG WHOM ALSO WE ALL HAD OUR CONVERSATION IN TIMES PAST IN THE LUSTS OF OUR FLESH, FULFILLING THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH AND OF THE MIND; AND WERE BY NATURE THE CHILDREN OF WRATH, EVEN AS OTHERS. This is really only a part of a long and involved period, the verb having been supplied by the translato... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT GOD, WHO IS RICH IN MERCY, FOR HIS GREAT LOVE WHERE WITH HE LOVED US,... [ Continue Reading ]
God's grace manifested toward the sinners:... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD IN SINS, HATH QUICKENED US TOGETHER WITH CHRIST, (BY GRACE YE ARE SAVED,)... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HATH RAISED US UP TOGETHER, AND MADE US SIT TOGETHER IN HEAVENLY PLACES IN CHRIST JESUS,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT IN THE AGES TO COME HE MIGHT SHOW THE EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS GRACE IN HIS KINDNESS TOWARD US THROUGH CHRIST JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED THROUGH FAITH; AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES; IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD;... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANY MAN SHOULD BOAST.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS UNTO GOOD WORKS, WHICH GOD HATH BEFORE ORDAINED THAT WE SHOULD WALK IN THEM. Paul now introduces the subject of the sentence begun in v. 1. His thought is: God gave to us, who are now Christians, while we were still dead with reference to our tresp... [ Continue Reading ]
A special reminder to the Gentile Christians:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, REMEMBER THAT YE, BEING IN TIME PAST GENTILES IN THE FLESH, WHO ARE CALLED UNCIRCUMCISION BY THAT WHICH IS CALLED THE CIRCUMCISION IN THE FLESH MADE BY HANDS,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT AT THAT TIME YE WERE WITHOUT CHRIST, BEING ALIENS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL, AND STRANGERS FROM THE COVENANTS OF PROMISE, HAVING NO HOPE, AND WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NOW IN CHRIST JESUS YE, WHO SOMETIMES WERE FAR OFF, ARE MADE NIGH BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. The apostle here addresses himself specifically to the Gentile Christians, who constituted the majority in the Ephesian congregation: Wherefore, remember that formerly you, Gentiles in the flesh, called unc... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE IS OUR PEACE, WHO HATH MADE BOTH ONE, AND HATH BROKEN DOWN THE MIDDLE WALL OF PARTITION BETWEEN US,... [ Continue Reading ]
The reconciliation effected by Christ:... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVING ABOLISHED IN HIS FLESH THE ENMITY, EVEN THE LAW OF COMMANDMENTS CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES, FOR TO MAKE IN HIMSELF OF TWAIN ONE NEW MAN, SO MAKING PEACE;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THAT HE MIGHT RECONCILE BOTH UNTO GOD IN ONE BODY BY THE CROSS, HAVING SLAIN THE ENMITY THERE BY;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHICH WERE AFAR OFF, AND TO THEM THAT WERE NIGH.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THROUGH HIM WE BOTH HAVE ACCESS BY ONE SPIRIT UNTO THE FATHER. The thought of the passage is that God, by the redemption of Christ, has gathered His Church out of Jews and Gentiles. So far as the present relation between Jews and Gentiles in the congregation is concerned, Paul writes: For He Him... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW, THEREFORE, YE ARE NO MORE STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS, BUT FELLOW-CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS AND OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD;... [ Continue Reading ]
The Christians God's living temple:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ARE BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF BEING THE CHIEF CORNER-STONE;... [ Continue Reading ]
IN WHOM ALL THE BUILDING, FITLY FRAMED TOGETHER, GROWETH UNTO AN HOLY TEMPLE IN THE LORD;... [ Continue Reading ]
IN WHOM YE ALSO ARE BUILDED TOGETHER FOR AN HABITATION OF GOD THROUGH THE SPIRIT. The apostle here draws the conclusion from the foregoing statements, offering a summary of all that has been said: Accordingly, then, no more are you strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow-citizens of the saints... [ Continue Reading ]