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Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice;
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice;
Verse 31. _LET ALL BITTERNESS_] πασα πικρια. It is astonishing that any who profess the Christian name should indulge _bitterness_ of spirit. Those who are _censorious_, who are _unmerciful_ to the _...
LET ALL BITTERNESS - see the notes on Ephesians 4:2. AND WRATH - The word here does not differ essentially from anger. ANGER - see the note on Ephesians 4:26. All cherished, unreasonable anger....
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
EPHESIANS 4:25 TO EPHESIANS 5:2. PRECEPTS OF THE NEW LIFE. Away then with lying, resentment, stealing, foul talk, bad temper, lust. Remember the common membership (Ephesians 4:25). Give the devil no s...
So then strip yourselves of falsehood, and let each of you speak the truth with his neighbour, because we are all members of the same body. Be angry--but be angry in such a way that your anger is not...
Ephesians 4:1-32 INTRODUCTION (Ephesians 4:1-10) With this chapter the second part of the letter begins. In Ephesians 1:1-23;...
BITTERNESS. Greek. _pikria._ See Romans 3:14 and Figure of speech _Polysyndeton._ App-6. WRATH. Luke 4:28. ANGER. Greek. _orge_. CLAMOUR. uproar. See Acts 23:9. EVIL SPEAKING. railin
_all … all_ Observe the uncompromising scope of the precept. Revolution in principle was to result in nothing short of _revolution_in temper and practice. _wrath … anger_ The two original words occur...
The subject pursued: the revolution coming out in truthfulness, kindness, honesty, purity, patience, forgivingness 25. _Wherefore_ From these deep principles come now the more detailed inferences of h...
17–5:14. THE GREAT CONTRAST...
ΠΑ͂ΣΑ ΠΙΚΡΊΑ ΚΑῚ ΘΥΜῸΣ ΚΑῚ ὈΡΓῊ ΚΑῚ ΚΡΑΥΓῊ ΚΑῚ ΒΛΑΣΦΗΜΊΑ. We pass now to a warning against all tokens of an unbrotherly temper. The stress laid on this side of Christian Ethics by all the N.T. writers...
Ephesians 4:25 to Ephesians 5:14. THE CONTRAST IN DETAIL...
ΠΙΚΡΊΑ (G4088) горечь. Это образный термин, обозначающий расстроенное, раздраженное состояние ума, которое поддерживает человека в постоянном беспокойстве; заставляет его выносить неблагоприятные, рез...
LET ALL BITTERNESS, &C. _BE PUT AWAY_— "Do not passionately resent every trifle, nor bitterly inveigh, with all the licentiousness and keenness of satire, against those who have greatly injured you;—f...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 4:17-32; EPHESIANS 5:1-2) B. Walk as becometh saints. Ephesians 4:17-32;...
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: BITTERNESS - both of spirit and of speech: opposed to "kind." WRATH, [ thumos (G2...
__ Summary of Previous Grace 13 Before the revelation of the secret administration by means of this epistle the saints among the nations were in a period of adolescence. This is fully set forth by t...
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...
LET ALL BITTERNESS. — There is a similar enumeration in the parallel passage, Colossians 3:8; and in all such catalogues in St. Paul’s Epistles, while it is vain to seek for formal and elaborate syste...
(3 _a_) In Ephesians 4:31 to Ephesians 5:2, he deals with malignity, as utterly unworthy of the love of God manifested to us in Jesus Christ....
CHAPTER 21 DISCARDED VICES Ephesians 4:25; Ephesians 5:1 The transformation described in the last paragraph (Ephesians 4:17) has now to be carried into detail. The vices of the old heathen self must...
πᾶσα πικρία : _let all bitterness_. The noun πικρία occurs thrice again in the NT, and with different shades of meaning (Acts 8:23; Romans 3:14; Hebrews 12:15). Meyer makes it = _fretting spitefulness...
A paragraph containing a series of detached, practical exhortations, dealing with certain evils to be forsworn and duties to be fulfilled. These injunctions are all based on the preceding statement, o...
PUTTING ON THE “NEW MAN” Ephesians 4:20 The Lord Jesus is our text-book and our teacher, the schoolhouse in which we are taught, and the object lesson in which all truth is enshrined. But all is in v...
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...
Do Not Grieve the Holy Spirit Any involvement of Christians in the activities of the "old man" would grieve the Holy Spirit (Isaiah 63:10). Whenever we reject the teachings of the Bible, we are reject...
(17) В¶ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, (18) Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the...
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...
One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play correc...
31._Let all bitterness. _He again condemns anger; but, on the present occasion, views in connection with it those offenses by which it is usually accompanied, such as noisy disputes and reproaches. Be...
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...
LET ALL BITTERNESS,.... These words are a dehortation from several vices good men are liable to, by which the Spirit of God is grieved: "bitterness" sometimes designs the corruption of nature, which i...
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: Ver. 31. _Let all bitterness, &c._] If the godly man suddenly fall into hitter words,...
_Let all bitterness_ Of disposition or expression, or, as some render the word, _all peevishness; and wrath_ Or indignation, as θυμος seems here to signify; that is, anger mingled with contempt or dis...
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...
“LET ALL BITTERNESS, AND WRATH, AND ANGER, AND CLAMOR, AND RAILING, BE PUT AWAY FROM YOU, WITH ALL MALICE”. “All”: GOD HAS ZERO TOLERANCE FOR THESE QUALITIES. “ALL MANNER OF, HARSHNESS IN ALL ITS FOR...
29-32 Filthy words proceed from corruption in the speaker, and they corrupt the minds and manners of those who hear them: Christians should beware of all such discourse. It is the duty of Christians...
LET ALL BITTERNESS, AND WRATH, AND ANGER; these all seem to relate to the inward affection, as the two following to the effects of it in the words. BITTERNESS may imply a secret lurking displeasure at...
Tertullian On Prayer , when from the beginning "all anger" is forbidden us?[72]...
Ephesians 4:31 Let G142 all G3956 bitterness G4088 G2532 wrath G2372 G2532 anger G3709 G2532 clamor...
‘Let all bitterness and wrath, and anger and clamour, and railing, be put away from you with all malice, and you be kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Chris...
1. _Exhortations based on the Contrast between the Old and New Man._ The exhortation of Ephesians 4:1-3 is resumed, but with all the added force derived from the motives presented in Ephesians 4:4-16....
Ephesians 4:31. This verse warns against several manifestations of evil passion, virtually grouping them under the common term (or principle) of ‘malice.' The whole presents a sharp contrast to the ex...
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...
BITTERNESS (πικρια). Old word from πικρος (bitter), in N.T. only here and Acts 8:23; Romans 3:14; Hebrews 12:15.CLAMOUR (κραυγη). Old word for outcry ...
Ephesians 4:31 Love the Foe and Conqueror of Selfishness. Christianity denies the assumption, and challenges it all along the line, that pursuit of the higher life need be, in any sense or degree, ne...
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,-_ «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...
GET RID OF. "All these things make the Spirit sad!...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 4:31 ALL modifies every item in the list. BITTERNESS may be listed first because it often leads to the other sins Paul names....
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 4:25 Encouragement for a Holy Lifestyle. Paul gives practical examples of how church members strengthen Christ’s body (compare vv. Ephesia
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 4:25. PUTTING AWAY LYING.—Findlay holds to it that “_the lie, the falsehood_, is objective and concrete; not _lying_, or _falsehood_, as a subjective act, h...
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 14:20; 1 Corinthians 5:8; 1 John 3:12; 1 John 3:15;...
Bitterness [π ι κ ρ ι α] Bitter frame of mind Wrath. What is commanded in ver. 26 is here forbidden, because viewed simply on the side of human passion. Anger [θ υ μ ο ς] Violent outbreak. See on Joh...
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...
Let all bitterness — The height of settled anger, opposite to kindness, Ephesians 4:32. And wrath — Lasting displeasure toward the ignorant, and them that are out of the way, opposite to tenderhearted...
Our apostle had exhorted, in the former verse, not to grieve the Holy Spirit of God; in the next verse, he acquaints us with the particular sins that would afflict and grieve him: namely, BITTERNESS,...