Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Ephesians 4:1
I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
CHAPTER IV. _The apostle exhorts them to walk worthy of their vocation, and_ _to live in peace and unity_, 1-6. _Shows that God has distributed a variety of gifts, and_ _instituted a variety of of...
I, THEREFORE - In view of the great and glorious truths which God has revealed, and of the grace which he has manifested toward you who are Gentiles. See the previous chapters. The sense of the word “...
II. THE PRACTICAL MANIFESTATION IN THE LIFE OF THE BELIEVER (4-6) 1. Walking worthy of the Calling CHAPTER 4:1-6 _ 1. The walk in lowliness and meekness (Ephesians 4:1)_ 2. Keeping the unity of th...
GOD'S CALLING INVOLVES A UNITY OF LIFE. The writer, appealing to his imprisonment, beseeches his readers to walk in a fashion worthy of their calling, _i.e._ in humility, gentleness, and forbearance,...
So then, I, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you to behave yourselves in a way that is worthy of the calling with which you are called. I urge you to behave with all humility, and gentleness, and patien...
So then, I, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you to behave yourselves in a way that is worthy of the calling with which you are called. I urge you to behave with all humility, and gentleness, and patien...
Ephesians 4:1-32 INTRODUCTION (Ephesians 4:1-10) With this chapter the second part of the letter begins. In Ephesians 1:1-23;...
I THEREFORE. Resuming his teaching after the parenthesis of Ephesians 3:1. PRISONER. See Ephesians 3:1. LORD. App-98. BESEECH. Greek. _parakaleo._ App-134. Compare 1 Thessalonia
Ephesians 4:1-16. Practical results: spiritual Unity in Diversity of Gifts 1. _I therefore_ Here begins what may be called the Second Part of the Epistle. Hitherto the Apostle has dealt with the etern...
B. Ephesians 4:1 to Ephesians 6:20. THE FRUITS OF SONSHIP TO BE LOOKED FOR FROM THE NATIONS The foundation for the exhortations that follow is now securely laid in the vision of truth unfolded both by...
ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΏ _praes. ind. act. от_ ПАРАΚΑΛΈΩ (G3870) молить, просить, ободрять. Это слово выражает теплое, личное, но в то же время срочное пожелание автора (Barth; TDNT; NTW). ΟΎΝ (G3767) следовательно....
DISCOURSE: 2106 A CONSISTENT WALK ENJOINED Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekn...
I THEREFORE THE PRISONER OF THE LORD, &C.— St. Paul having concluded the special part of his Epistle with the foregoing chapter, comes in this, as his manner is, to practical exhortations. He begins w...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 4:1-16) II. Duties. Ephesians 4:1-32; Ephesians 5:1-33; E
(4:1,2) Paul declares himself to be "a prisoner in (in the sphere of) the Lord". This is a locative word that places him entirely within the life of the Lord Jesus. He has died to all that he is natur...
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, The practical portion begins here. Greek order, 'I exhort [ parakaloo (G3870)] you,...
__ Summary of the Present Grace 2 The present secret administration of which there is no hint in any Scriptures before this epistle was penned, consists essentially of three separate items, all of w...
4:1 wherewith (b-16) Or 'according to which.'...
PRISONER] This looks back to Ephesians 3:1. 'He can no longer superintend them: they must walk alone. He lost his liberty in their service: they will do what he asks.' 2. To a Greek, meekness was a se...
UNITY OF THE NEW LIFE. RULES FOR THE NEW LIFE The Apostle passes, as usual, from doctrinal statements to practical exhortations; but doctrine is here and there introduced to support exhortation. 1-6...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 4 What Paul taught in Chapter s 1-3 was first about God and his Son Jesus Christ. Then it was about th...
(1) Ephesians 4:1, although cast in a hortatory form contain the final summary of the great doctrine of the Epistle — the UNITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH — in words which have all the glowing freedom of...
WORTHY OF THE VOCATION WHEREWITH YE ARE CALLED. — This “being worthy of the Christian calling” may obviously show itself in any of the graces of regenerate humanity, all being features of the image of...
CHAPTER 16 THE EXHORTATION ON CHURCH LIFE. CHAPTER 4:1-16 THE FUNDAMENTAL UNITIES Ephesians 4:1 This Encyclical of St. Paul to the Churches of Asia is the most formal and deliberate of his writings...
παρακαλῶ οὖν ὑμᾶς ἐγὼ ὁ δέσμιος ἐν Κυρίῳ : _I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech_ (or, exhort) _you_. In more exact accordance with the _order_ of the words “I beseech you, therefore, I the...
With the fourth chapter begins the second main division of the Epistle. As in others of Paul's Epistles the doctrinal statement is followed by the practical enforcement of duty. Doctrinal consideratio...
KEEPING THE “UNITY OF THE SPIRIT” Ephesians 4:1 Paul here admonishes lowliness in the presence of another's excellence; meekness in suffering injury; long-suffering under provocation; forbearance tow...
The apostle at once proceeded to apply this great doctrine to the present life of the Church. From the heavenly calling he passed to the earthly conduct. The matter of first importance is maintenance...
Walking Worthily Means Walking In Unity Because God had given such great blessings to those in the church and could provide even above what we might ask or think, Paul pleaded with the brethren at Eph...
I therefore, (1) the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the (a) vocation wherewith ye are called, (1) Another part of the epistle, containing precepts of the Christian life, the...
Here begins the second part of this epistle, in which he exhorts them to the practice of Christian virtues. (Witham)...
(1) В¶ I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, (2) В¶ With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one anothe...
CONTENTS In this Chapter the Apostle considereth the Oneness and Unity of the Church in Christ. He sweetly sheweth how, as one Body, the Church is supplied with every suited Grace to each Member. He...
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...
_VOCATION_ ‘I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called.’ Ephesians 4:1 The vocation or calling here referred to was the _ name_,...
I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week as we studies Chapter 3 of the book of Galatians, Paul told the Gentiles that they were equal with the Jews in Christ! 1. In fact we are all equal at the Cross! B. In C...
The three remaining chapters consist entirely of practical exhortations. Mutual agreement is the first subject, in the course of which a discussion is introduced respecting the government of the churc...
The faithful were to seek in the dispositions mentioned above to maintain this unity of the Spirit by the bond of peace. There are three things in this exhortation: first, to walk worthy of their call...
I THEREFORE, THE PRISONER OF THE LORD, BESEECH YOU,.... Or "in the Lord"; that is, for the Lord's sake; Ephesians 3:1. Some connect this phrase, "in the Lord", with the following word, "beseech": as i...
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, Ver. 1. _Worthy of the vocation_] There is a το πρεπον, a seemliness appertaining to ea...
_I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord_ Imprisoned for his sake and for yours; for the sake of the gospel which he had preached to them and other Gentiles: see note on Ephesians 3:1: this was therefor...
THEREFORE; on account of the glorious truths revealed in the gospel. WALK WORTHY OF THE VOCATION WHEREWITH YE ARE CALLED; in a manner corresponding with its high and holy nature....
RESPONSE IN PRACTICAL UNITY (vs.1-6) In this letter to the Ephesian saints, Paul first presented the basic truth so essential for individual saints (Ch.1:1- 2:10) and for the Church, the body of Chri...
CHAPTER 4 Even though Paul is a ______________, he still urges us to walk in our __________. This walk must be a ____________ one. What does it mean to walk worthy? Paul gives us some words to consi...
OF THE LORD: Or, in the Lord...
“I THEREFORE, THE PRISONER IN THE LORD, BESEECH YOU TO WALK WORTHILY OF THE CALLING WHEREWITH YE WERE CALLED” “Therefore”: “This conjunction makes. transition, denoting that what follows is. logical a...
1-6 Nothing is pressed more earnestly in the Scriptures, than to walk as becomes those called to Christ's kingdom and glory. By lowliness, understand humility, which is opposed to pride. By meekness,...
EPHESIANS CHAPTER 4 EPHESIANS 4:1 Paul exhorteth to those virtues which become the Christian calling, particularly to unity, EPHESIANS 4:7 declaring that Christ gave his gifts differently, that his bo...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians beseech you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,"[3] Tertullian On the Veiling of Virgins They and we have one faith, one God, the sa...
Ephesians 4:1 I G1473 therefore G3767 prisoner G1198 of G1722 Lord G2962 beseech G3870 (G5719) you G5209 walk...
EXHORTATION TO ONENESS (4:1-16). Paul calls on them therefore now to be as one, and walk worthily of their calling....
‘I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you have been called. With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love. Gi...
I. WALK WORTHY OF THE CALLING IN HUMILITY AND UNITY. This brief section contains the practical theme, exhorting the readers to a walk worthy of their calling (Ephesians 4:1), naming three attendant vi...
Ephesians 4:1. I EXHORT YOU THEREFORE. The emphasis in the original rests on ‘exhort,' as indicated in the order given above. The word means first to call hither (corresponding with ‘calling' and ‘cal...
WHEREWITH YE WERE CALLED (ης εκληθητε). Attraction of the relative ης to the genitive of the antecedent κλησεως (calling) from the cognate accusative ην with εκληθητε (first aorist passive indicativ...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you-_ Paul puts force into the argument by his manner of speaking; you can hear in his words the rattle of his chains. Here is a man who...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one anot...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,-_ «You are called to be sons of God, you are called to be one with Chri...
CONTENTS: Walk and service of the believer in Christ. Ministry of gifts of Christ to His Body. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit, God, Paul. CONCLUSION: Considering to what state and condition God has...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you_ a pathetic argument, for if I hear of discords among you it will add affliction to my bonds; _that ye walk worthy of the vocation wh...
I URGE YOU, THEN. "I have showed you the secret Plan of God and the glory of Christ and his church to make you aware of _who you are!!!_ What I am about to say is based on the fact of _who you are_ in...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 4:1 Unity of the Body of Christ. Paul shows how to apply the truths he has been teaching. There are three subsections: vv. Ephesians 4:1,...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 4:1. WALK WORTHY OF THE VOCATION.—They had been called to life in the Spirit, and they must also “walk in the Spirit.” Ephesians 4:2. WITH ALL LOWLINESS.—Th...
EXPOSITION PRACTICAL PORTION OF THE EPISTLE. EPHESIANS 4:1 CHURCH PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH AND PROGRESS; THE CHURCH A BODY
Now Paul begins the fourth chapter again with the reminder that he is a prisoner of the Lord, and I beseech you, [I beg you, I implore you] that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are call...
1 Corinthians 4:16; 1 Peter 2:11; 1 Peter 3:9; 1 Peter 5:10;...
In the Lord. See on Philippians 1:14....
THE HIGHER CHRISTIAN LIFE Ephesians 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A prisoner of the Lord. One would hardly expect to find a prisoner in a Roman jail, the author of such a remarkable letter. We are accus...
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord — Imprisoned for his sake and for your sakes; for the sake of the gospel which he had preached amongst them. This was therefore a powerful motive to them to comfo...
As if he had said, "Seeing the riches of God's grace in Christ have so abounded towards you, who were once Ephesian idolaters, but now converted Gentiles,. Paul, who am. prisoner for preaching the gos...