Ephesians 4:1-6
APOSTOLIC ADMONITIONS TO UNITY, TO PERFECTION IN KNOWLEDGE, TO HOLINESS, AND TO PEACE. Ephesians 4:1 Paul exhorts to unity:... [ Continue Reading ]
APOSTOLIC ADMONITIONS TO UNITY, TO PERFECTION IN KNOWLEDGE, TO HOLINESS, AND TO PEACE. Ephesians 4:1 Paul exhorts to unity:... [ Continue Reading ]
I, THEREFORE, THE PRISONER OF THE LORD, BESEECH YOU THAT YE WALK WORTHY OF THE VOCATION WHEREWITH YE ARE CALLED,... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH ALL LOWLINESS AND MEEKNESS, WITH LONG-SUFFERING, FOR BEARING ONE ANOTHER IN LOVE;... [ Continue Reading ]
ENDEAVORING TO KEEP THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT IN THE BOND OF PEACE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE IS ONE BODY AND ONE SPIRIT, EVEN AS YE ARE CALLED IN ONE HOPE OF YOUR CALLING;... [ Continue Reading ]
ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM,... [ Continue Reading ]
ONE GOD AND FATHER OF ALL, WHO IS ABOVE ALL AND THROUGH ALL AND IN YOU ALL. Having brought the doctrinal section of his letter to a close, the apostle bases his admonitions to holiness of life upon the foundation of Christian knowledge thus laid. He opens the second part of his letter just as he did... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT UNTO EVERY ONE OF US IS GIVEN GRACE ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE OF THE GIFT OF CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ's gifts to the individual Christians:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE HE SAITH, WHEN HE ASCENDED UP ON HIGH, HE LED CAPTIVITY CAPTIVE, AND GAVE GIFTS UNTO MEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
(NOW THAT HE ASCENDED, WHAT IS IT BUT THAT HE ALSO DESCENDED FIRST INTO THE LOWER PARTS OF THE EARTH?... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT DESCENDED IS THE SAME ALSO THAT ASCENDED UP FAR ABOVE ALL HEAVENS THAT HE MIGHT FILL ALL THINGS.) This bit of information very properly follows the instruction concerning the union of all believers in the holy Christian Church, for it throws the responsibility upon the individual as a member... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE GAVE SOME, APOSTLES; AND SOME, PROPHETS; AND SOME, EVANGELISTS; AND SOME, PASTORS AND TEACHERS,... [ Continue Reading ]
The organization and work of the ministry of the Church:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE PERFECTING OF THE SAINTS, FOR THE WORK OF THE MINISTRY, FOR THE EDIFYING OF THE BODY OF CHRIST;... [ Continue Reading ]
TILL WE ALL COME IN THE UNITY OF THE FAITH AND OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SON OF GOD, UNTO A PERFECT MAN, UNTO THE MEASURE OF THE STATURE OF THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST;... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT WE HENCEFORTH BE NO MORE CHILDREN, TOSSED TO AND FRO, AND CARRIED ABOUT WITH EVERY WIND OF DOCTRINE, BY THE SLEIGHT OF MEN AND CUNNING CRAFTINESS WHEREBY THEY LIE IN WAIT TO DECEIVE;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT, SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE, MAY GROW UP INTO HIM IN ALL THINGS, WHICH IS THE HEAD, EVEN CHRIST, Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and love unto all the saints,... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul's exhortation and supplication for the Church as the body of Christ:... [ Continue Reading ]
CEASE NOT TO GIVE THANKS FOR YOU, MAKING MENTION OF YOU IN MY PRAYERS, from whom the whole body, fitly joined and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. The thou... [ Continue Reading ]
An admonition to spiritual renewal:... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THE GOD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE FATHER OF GLORY, MAY GIVE UNTO YOU THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND REVELATION IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM, This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVING THE UNDERSTANDING DARKENED, BEING ALIENATED FROM THE LIFE OF GOD THROUGH THE IGNORANCE THAT IS IN THEM, BECAUSE OF THE BLINDNESS OF THEIR HE ART; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inherit... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHAT IS THE EXCEEDING GREATNESS OF HIS POWER TO US-WARD WHO BELIEVE, ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF HIS MIGHTY POWER, who, being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT YE HAVE NOT SO LEARNED CHRIST, which He wrought in Christ when he raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places,... [ Continue Reading ]
FAR ABOVE ALL PRINCIPALITY, AND POWER, AND MIGHT, AND DOMINION, AND EVERY NAME THAT IS NAMED, NOT ONLY IN THIS WORLD, BUT ALSO IN THAT WHICH IS TO COME; if so be that ye have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HATH PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET, AND GAVE HIM TO BE THE HEAD OVER ALL THINGS TO THE CHURCH, that ye put off, concerning the former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BE RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND, which is His body, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all. A long and remarkable sentence, presenting the loftiest conception, both of Christ's own supremacy and of the grandeur of that Church of His, of which the Ephesians have been made members. The... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THAT YE PUT ON THE NEW MAN, WHICH AFTER GOD IS CREATED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TRUE HOLINESS. The apostle here takes up the thought of v. 1 again, which contains the fundamental admonition for the entire second part of the letter, namely, that the Christians should lead a life worthy of the calling... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, PUTTING AWAY LYING, SPEAK EVERY MAN TRUTH WITH HIS NEIGHBOR; FOR WE ARE MEMBERS ONE OF ANOTHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
An instruction regarding individual sins:... [ Continue Reading ]
BE YE ANGRY, AND SIN NOT; LET NOT THE SUN GO DOWN UPON YOUR WRATH.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER GIVE PLACE TO THE DEVIL.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET HIM THAT STOLE STEAL NO MORE, BUT RATHER LET HIM LABOR, WORKING WITH HIS HANDS THE THING WHICH IS GOOD, THAT HE MAY HAVE TO GIVE TO HIM THAT NEEDETH. It is true indeed that a Christian, by virtue of his conversion, has his thoughts and interests directed to the virtues which are well-pleasing to... [ Continue Reading ]
LET NO CORRUPT COMMUNICATION PROCEED OUT OF YOUR MOUTH, BUT THAT WHICH IS GOOD TO THE USE OF EDIFYING, THAT IT MAY MINISTER GRACE UNTO THE HEARERS.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of sins against Christian fellowship:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND GRIEVE NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, WHEREBY YE ARE SEALED UNTO THE DAY OF REDEMPTION.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET ALL BITTERNESS, AND WRATH, AND ANGER, AND CLAMOR, AND EVIL SPEAKING BE PUT AWAY FROM YOU, WITH ALL MALICE;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BE YE KIND ONE TO ANOTHER, TENDER-HEARTED, FOR GIVING ONE ANOTHER, EVEN AS GOD FOR CHRIST'S SAKE HATH FORGIVEN YOU. The apostle here again, as in v. 25, mentions sins of the tongue: Every corrupt speech, out of your mouth let it not proceed; but such as is good for the building up of the need, t... [ Continue Reading ]