Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ephesians 5:1
Be ye therefore followers — Imitators. Of God — In forgiving and loving. O how much more honourable and more happy, to be an imitator of God, than of Homer, Virgil, or Alexander the Great!
Be ye therefore followers — Imitators. Of God — In forgiving and loving. O how much more honourable and more happy, to be an imitator of God, than of Homer, Virgil, or Alexander the Great!
CHAPTER V. _Christians should imitate their heavenly Father, and walk in_ _love, after the example of Christ_, 1, 2. _They should avoid all uncleanness, impurity, covetousness, and_ _foolish jesti...
BE YE THEREFORE FOLLOWERS OF GOD - Greek, “Be imitators - μιμηταὶ mimētai - of God.” The idea is not that they were to be the friends of God, or numbered among his followers, but that they were to i...
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...
You must become imitators of God, as well loved children imitate their father. You must live in love, as Christ loved you, and gave himself to God as a sacrifice and an offering, a sacrifice which was...
THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
FOLLOWERS. imitators. Greek. _mimetes._ See 1 Corinthians 4:16. GOD. App-98. DEAR. beloved. App-135. CHILDREN. App-108....
Ephesians 5:1-14. The subject pursued: Christ's Sacrifice the supreme example of self-sacrifice: Purity: Reproof of darkness by light 1. _therefore_ The argument passes unbroken from the previous wor...
ΓΊΝΕΣΘΕ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ΜΙΜΗΤΑῚ ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΕΟΥ͂, ὩΣ ΤΈΚΝΑ�. The thought of the Divine Example is repeated and enforced by reference to the thought of the Fatherhood of God (bringing the passage into yet closer relat...
17–5:14. THE GREAT CONTRAST Ephesians 4:25 to Ephesians 5:14. THE CONTRAST IN DETAIL...
ΓΊΝΕΣΘΕ _praes. imper. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться. _Praes. imper._ указывает на образ жизни, ΜΙΜΗΤΑΊ _pl. от_ ΜΙΜΗΤΉΣ (G3402) подражатель. Последующий _gen._ указывает на пример для...
BE YE THEREFORE, &C.— "Since therefore God is so exceedingly good and merciful in the exercise of his pardoning grace toward you (ch. Ephesians 4:32.), let this excite you to be (μιμηται) imitators of...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 4:17-32; EPHESIANS 5:1-2) B. Walk as becometh saints. Ephesians 4:17-32;...
(5:1,2) "Therefore" means, "because you are children of God, be like (imitate) your Father". This does not say that we are to imitate Christ. Rather, we are to imitate the Father, who made it His purp...
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; BE YE, [ ginesthe (G1096)] - 'become.' THEREFORE - since 'God in Christ forgave you' (Ephesians 4:32). FOLLOWERS - Greek, 'imitators' of God...
__ 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...
THE OLD DARKNESS AND NEW LIGHT. RULES FOR THE MARRIED 1, 2. In close connexion with what precedes. 'It is the mark of beloved children to become imitators of a loving Father; practise the self-sacrif...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 5 5:1-14 ~ LOVE 5:1-7 ~ LIVE IN LOVE V1 You must try to be as much like God as you can. You are his...
(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....
FOLLOWERS OF GOD. — The phrase is unique and very striking; literally, _imitators of God_: and the word “therefore” implies that this imitation of God must be chiefly in His essential attribute of lov...
V. (1, 2) These verses are an expansion and enforcement of the last verse of Ephesians 4. There the forgiveness of “God in Christ” is set forth in one pregnant phrase. Here the two parts of this idea...
CHAPTER 22 DOCTRINE AND ETHICS Ephesians 4:25; Ephesians 5:1 The homily that we have briefly reviewed in the last chapter demands further consideration. It affords a striking and instructive exampl...
γίνεσθε οὖν μιμηταὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ : _become ye therefore imitators of God_. γίνεσθε, as in Ephesians 4:32, = “become ye,” rather than “be ye”. This γίνεσθε also resumes the former γίνεσθε (Ephesians 4:32),...
A paragraph ruled by the general idea of the imitation of God in the forgiving love which has been appealed to in the preceding verse. In the light of that Divine example Paul charges his readers to f...
WALK AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT Ephesians 5:1 It is indeed a high calling to imitate God and to walk in love after the measure of Christ; but it will be impossible unless we open our innermost heart to the...
All that the apostle had been saying was emphasized by the statement of their relationship to God as he called them to be "imitators of God." Again he urged them to put off the old and put on the new....
Walking In Love Like God God extended his forgiveness to all men through the loving gift of his Son on Calvary. Paul's reference in 4:32 to Christians forgiving as God forgives led him to encourage t...
(1) В¶ Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; (2) 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 sweetsmelling savo...
CONTENTS The Apostle is still prosecuting the same Subject, as in the former upon the Church to follow God, under the Character of dear Children. He closeth his subject, in a most beautiful Represent...
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...
_THE HIGHEST DIGNITY OF MAN_ ‘Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us.’ Ephesians 5:1 We can follow God in love. In this ability our highe...
I. INTRODUCTION A. As we return to the book of Ephesians, we continue our study on Christian behavior. 1. The Apostle Paul has just given the Ephesian Christians, (and us) a "list" of ungodly behavi...
1._Be ye therefore followers. _The same principle is followed out and enforced by the consideration that children ought to be like their father. He reminds us that we are the children of God, and that...
Moreover, let us remark here, and it is an important feature in this picture of the fruits of grace and of the new man, that when the grace and love, which come down from God, act in man, they always...
BE YE THEREFORE FOLLOWERS OF GOD,.... Not in his works of infinite wisdom and almighty power, which is impossible; but in acts of righteousness and holiness, and particularly in acts of mercy, goodnes...
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; Ver. 1. _Be ye therefore followers_] In forgiving one another. _ As dear children_] God hath but a few such children. _See Trapp on "_ Mat 5:45 _...
_Therefore_ Because you are forgiven by God, and have been so much loved; (Ephesians 4:32;) _be ye followers_ Μιμηται, _imitators, of God_ In loving and forgiving; _as dear_ Αγαπητα, _beloved, childre...
FOLLOWERS OF GOD; imitators of him, especially in his love to men. We have reason for everlasting gratitude to God that he has given us a perfect example; and it should be our great object perfectly t...
BE YE, THEREFORE, FOLLOWERS OF GOD, AS DEAR CHILDREN;...
A WARNING, PRINCIPALLY AGAINST THE SINS OF UNCLEANNESS. The imitation of God excludes uncleanness:...
WALK IN LOVE (vs.1-7) Verses 1 and 2 of chapter 5 are closely connected with verse 32 of chapter 4. God's gracious character of love that delights to have us as His dear children is our example. The...
CHAPTER 5 We must not follow the ways of the old man. We must be ______________ of God. He is our Father. We are his _____________. We must __________ in love because Christ loved us. He gave himsel...
“BE YE THEREFORE IMITATORS OF GOD, AS BELOVED CHILDREN” Ephesians chapter Ephesians 5:22-33 “The Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians is rightly regarded as the most profound of his writings but he empl...
1,2 Because God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven you, therefore be ye followers of God, imitators of God. Resemble him especially in his love and pardoning goodness, as becomes those beloved by their...
EPHESIANS CHAPTER 5 EPHESIANS 5:1,2 Paul exhorteth to the imitation of God, and of the love of Christ, EPHESIANS 5:3,4 to avoid fornication and all uncleanness, EPHESIANS 5:5,6 which exclude from, the
Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians I have become acquainted with your name, much-beloved in God, which ye have acquired by the habit of righteousness, according to the faith and love in Jesus Chris...
Ephesians 5:1 Therefore G3767 be G1096 (G5737) imitators G3402 God G2316 as G5613 dear G27 children G5043...
THE CHRISTIAN WALK IN LOVE, LIGHT AND WISDOM (5:1-21). ‘Therefore you be imitators of God as beloved children, and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering...
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...
_2. Precepts based upon the Self-sacrificing Love of Christ._ The connection of thought with chap. Ephesians 4:32 is very close; God's forgiving love is directly presented as a motive (‘therefore') fo...
Ephesians 5:1. BECOME THEREFORE. ‘Therefore' connects the exhortation with chap. Ephesians 4:31-32, but there is an advance in thought, so that a new section begins here. Strictly speaking Ephesians 5...
IMITATORS OF GOD (μιμητα του θεου). This old word from μιμεομα Paul boldly uses. If we are to be like God, we must imitate him....
Ephesians 5:1 Christ's Acts of Love the Christian's Model. I. Christ took our flesh that in it He might go up and down among us; that in it He might be seen by us; that in it He might speak to us, an...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye therefore followers of God,_ Or, imitators of God,- Ephesians 5:1. _As dear children;_ Children are naturally imitators. They are usually inclined to imitate their father; thi...
CONTENTS: Walk of the believer as God's child. The believer's warfare as filled with the Spirit. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: As members of the family of God, it is our duty to put on...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye followers of God as dear children,_ for children are expected to walk in their father's steps. He sends us rain and fruitful seasons, he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the...
SINCE YOU ARE. "Do not imitate the viciously immoral character of the heathen _gods_! You are God's dear children and you must try to imitate his perfect character, especially his forgiving love!...
_Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children._ IMITATORS OF GOD The apostle urges us to give and forgive. If ye be imitators of God, give, for He is always giving. I. Consider the precept he...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:1 New Life in Love. Paul gives general instructions for holy living. Purity of life comes from avoiding evil deeds and relationships and adopting holy practices....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 5:1. FOLLOWERS OF GOD.—R.V. _imitators_. St. Paul gathers up all duties into one expression, “imitation of God,” and urges them on his readers by a reminder...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 5:1 BE YE THEREFORE IMITATORS OF GOD, AS CHILDREN BELOVED. These words are closely connected with the preceding. In Ephesians 4:32 he had urged the example of God in one very mo...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Ephesians, chapter 5. Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children (Ephesians 5:1); Now, the therefore immediately points you back, back to the last verse of...
1 John 3:1; 1 John 3:2; 1 John 4:11; 1 Peter 1:15; 1 Peter 1:16;...
Be ye [γ ι ν ε σ θ ε]. Become, as ch. 4 32. Followers [μ ι μ η τ α ι]. Rev, correctly, imitators. Dear [α γ α π η τ α] Rev., beloved. As those to whom Christ has shown love...
FOLLOWERS OF GOD Ephesians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening verse of today's chapter has a clear and clarion call to the children of God. It is something that we may not sidetrack or push aside....
Our apostle having, in the conclusion of the foregoing chapter, exhorted the Ephesians to mutual offices of love and kindness towards each other, in the beginning of this chapter he makes use of sever...