Ephesians 5:1-5
A WARNING, PRINCIPALLY AGAINST THE SINS OF UNCLEANNESS. The imitation of God excludes uncleanness:... [ Continue Reading ]
A WARNING, PRINCIPALLY AGAINST THE SINS OF UNCLEANNESS. The imitation of God excludes uncleanness:... [ Continue Reading ]
BE YE, THEREFORE, FOLLOWERS OF GOD, AS DEAR CHILDREN;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WALK IN LOVE, AS CHRIST ALSO HATH LOVED US, AND HATH GIVEN HIMSELF FOR US AN OFFERING AND A SACRIFICE TO GOD FOR A SWEET- SMELLING SAVOR.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT FORNICATION AND ALL UNCLEANNESS, OR COVETOUSNESS, LET IT NOT BE ONCE NAMED AMONG YOU, AS BECOMETH SAINTS;... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER FILTHINESS, NOR FOOLISH TALKING, NOR JESTING, WHICH ARE NOT CONVENIENT, BUT RATHER GIVING OF THANKS.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS YE KNOW, THAT NO WHOREMONGER, NOR UNCLEAN PERSON, NOR COVETOUS MAN, WHO IS AN IDOLATER, HATH ANY IN HERITANCE IN THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST AND OF GOD. The first verses of this chapter really conclude the thought at the close of the previous chapter. Paul had there admonished the Christians to b... [ Continue Reading ]
LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU WITH VAIN WORDS; FOR BECAUSE OF THESE THINGS COMETH THE WRATH OF GOD UPON THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The children of light avoid the works of darkness:... [ Continue Reading ]
BE NOT YE, THEREFORE, PARTAKERS WITH THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YE WERE SOMETIMES DARKNESS, BUT NOW ARE YE LIGHT IN THE LORD; WALK AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT,... [ Continue Reading ]
(FOR THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS IN ALL GOODNESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TRUTH,)... [ Continue Reading ]
PROVING WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE UNTO THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HAVE NO FELLOWSHIP WITH THE UNFRUITFUL WORKS OF DARKNESS, BUT RATHER REPROVE THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IT IS A SHAME EVEN TO SPEAK OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE DONE OF THEM IN SECRET.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT ALL THINGS THAT ARE REPROVED ARE MADE MANIFEST BY THE LIGHT; FOR WHATSOEVER DOTH MAKE MANIFEST IS LIGHT.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, HE SAITH, AWAKE, THOU THAT SLEEPEST, AND ARISE FROM THE DEAD, AND CHRIST SHALL GIVE THEE LIGHT. The Ephesian Christians, like those of every city since, were in the minority in the city, a few in the midst of many heathen. Not only did they have the constant example of the Gentiles before... [ Continue Reading ]
SEE, THEN, THAT YE WALK CIRCUMSPECTLY, NOT AS FOOLS, BUT AS WISE,... [ Continue Reading ]
Things demanded by the correctness of the Christian walk:... [ Continue Reading ]
REDEEMING THE TIME, BECAUSE THE DAYS ARE EVIL.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, BE YE NOT UNWISE, BUT UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE WILL OF THE LORD IS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BE NOT DRUNK WITH WINE, WHEREIN IS EXCESS; BUT BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT,... [ Continue Reading ]
SPEAKING TO YOURSELVES IN PSALMS AND HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS, SINGING AND MAKING MELODY IN YOUR HE ART TO THE LORD;... [ Continue Reading ]
GIVING THANKS ALWAYS FOR ALL THINGS UNTO GOD AND THE FATHER IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST;... [ Continue Reading ]
SUBMITTING YOURSELVES ONE TO ANOTHER IN THE FEAR OF GOD. The apostle continues his admonition to the Christians to walk as the children of light, since such behavior on their part will always serve to impress the unbelievers: Take heed, then, carefully how you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise. C... [ Continue Reading ]
WIVES, SUBMIT YOURSELVES UNTO YOUR OWN HUSBANDS AS UNTO THE LORD;... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DUTIES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES AS SHOWN BY THE RELATION OF CHRIST TO THE CHURCH. Ephesians 5:22 The exhortation with its basis:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE, EVEN AS CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH; AND HE IS THE SAVIOR OF THE BODY.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE, AS THE CHURCH IS SUBJECT UNTO CHRIST, SO LET THE WIVES BE TO THEIR OWN HUSBANDS IN EVERYTHING.... [ Continue Reading ]
HUSBANDS, LOVE YOUR WIVES, EVEN AS CHRIST ALSO LOVED THE CHURCH, AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR IT,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY AND CLEANSE IT WITH THE WASHING OF WATER BY THE WORD,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT IT TO HIMSELF A GLORIOUS CHURCH, NOT HAVING SPOT, OR WRINKLE, OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT IT SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH. Of this entire section it has been stated that "it gives the Christian ideal of the marriage-relation, It is the loftiest conception of that relation... [ Continue Reading ]
SO OUGHT MEN TO LOVE THEIR WIVES AS THEIR OWN BODIES. HE THAT LOVETH HIS WIFE LOVETH HIMSELF.... [ Continue Reading ]
Further application of the comparison:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR NO MAN EVER YET HATED HIS OWN FLESH, BUT NOURISHETH AND CHERISHETH IT, EVEN AS THE LORD THE CHURCH;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE ARE MEMBERS OF HIS BODY, OF HIS FLESH, AND OF HIS BONES.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS CAUSE SHALL A MAN LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, AND SHALL BE JOINED UNTO HIS WIFE, AND THEY TWO SHALL BE ONE FLESH.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY; BUT I SPEAK CONCERNING CHRIST AND THE CHURCH.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEVERTHELESS, LET EVERY ONE OF YOU IN PARTICULAR SO LOVE HIS WIFE EVEN AS HIMSELF, AND THE WIFE SEE THAT SHE REVERENCE HER HUSBAND. The apostle here returns to his comparison: Even so ought husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. It is not a matter of choice, but of obligation, of duty... [ Continue Reading ]