Verse 21. _SUBMITTING - ONE TO ANOTHER_] Let no man be so tenacious of his own will or his opinion in matters indifferent, as to disturb the peace of the Church; in all such matters _give_ _way_ to ea...
SUBMITTING YOURSELVES ONE TO ANOTHER - Maintaining due subordination in the various relations of life. This general principle of religion, the apostle proceeds now to illustrate in reference to wives...
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
THE WAY OF LIGHT AND THE WAY OF DARKNESS. There are other sins which among God's people, should be literally unmentionable fornication, uncleanness, coveting, filthiness, foolish speech, improper jest...
THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
Be very careful how you live. Do not live like unwise men, but like wise men. Use your time with all economy for these are evil days. That is the reason why you must not be senseless, but you must und...
SUBMITTING. Same as "subject", Ephesians 5:24. GOD. The texts read "Christ"....
The subject pursued: the talent of time: temperance: spiritual songs: thanksgiving: humility 15. _See then_ The more general exhortation to a holy life-walk is resumed here, after the special entreat...
_submitting_ The primary point in the spiritual ethics of the Gospel is humiliation; self is dethroned as against God, and consequently as against men. Here the special, but not exclusive, reference i...
ὙΠΟΤΑΣΣΌΜΕΝΟΙ�. An unexpected conclusion to the devotional outburst keeping it in strict relation to the commonplace duties of everyday life. This law of mutual subjection is paradoxical not in form o...
ΎΠΟΤΑΣΣΌΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΥΠΟΤΆΣΣΟΜΑΙ (G5293) повиноваться, подчиняться. В военном языке относится к солдатам, которые подчиняются офицерам; также к рабам, которые слушаются хозяев....
DISCOURSE: 2121 THE MARRIAGE UNION Ephesians 5:21. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the he...
SUBMITTING YOURSELVES ONE TO ANOTHER— Though this verse, in grammatical construction, be joined to the foregoing discourse, yet it ought to be looked upon as introductory to what follows, and to be a...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 5:21-33) C. Subject yourselves one to another. Ephesians 5:21-33; Ephesians 6:1-9. 1. The command....
(5:21) Submission, is deference to another's needs and direction. We should be in a mind-set of pliability and compromise where methods are concerned and absolutely firm where principles are concerned...
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. (; .) He passes from relations to God to those which concern our fellow-men. (; .) He passes from relations to G...
__ No Participation with Unbelievers 2 The sacrifice of Christ has many aspects. The opening Chapter s of Leviticus deal with these in detail. The sin and trespass offering seem to be entirely for m...
But everything is to 'be done decently and in order': enthusiasm is not to lead to anarchy. St. Paul ceaselessly preaches 'submission' or 'subjection' to authority (Romans 13:1; 1 Corinthians 14:32; 1...
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...
SUBMITTING YOURSELVES ONE TO ANOTHER IN THE FEAR OF GOD. — In grammatical construction this clause is connected with the preceding verses; in point of idea it leads on to the next section, which treat...
CHAPTER 24 THE NEW WINE OF THE SPIRIT Ephesians 5:15 Very solemnly did the moral homily to the Asian Christians begin in Ephesians 4:17: "This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, that you must...
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...
A paragraph closely connected with the former, and specifying various things belonging to the correctness and consistency of the Christian walk....
ὑποτασσόμενοι ἀλλήλοις : _subjecting yourselves one to another_. The connection of this clause is by no means clear. It is taken by not a few (Calv., Matthies, etc.) as an independent clause, the part...
“REDEEMING THE TIME” Ephesians 5:13 The earlier verses remind us of Isaiah 60:1. Awake, thou Christian soul; arise from the, dust and put on thy beautiful garments! Stand on the mountain-peak of pray...
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....
Submitting To One Another Each follower of Christ is to place himself under the control of fellow followers. This service is to be performed for others out of reverent respect for God who caused his...
(6) Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. (6) A short repetition of the end to which all things ought to be referred, to serve one another for God's sake....
(15) See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, (16) Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. (17) Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is...
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...
I. INTRODUCTION A. For the last few week in our study of Ephesians, we have been looking at what the behavior of a Christian should be. 1. Last week we stopped at the end of Chapter 5 verse 20, wher...
21._Submit yourselves. _God has bound us so strongly to each other, that no man ought to endeavor to avoid subjection; and where love reigns, mutual services will be rendered. I do not except even kin...
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...
SUBMITTING YOURSELVES ONE TO ANOTHER,.... Which may be understood either in a political sense, of giving honour, obedience, and tribute, to civil magistrates, since they are set up by God for the good...
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Ver. 21. _Submitting yourselves_] This is a general admonition to all inferiors, whose duties are afterwards described. Thus in the second tab...
_And be not drunk with wine_ As the heathen are when they celebrate the feasts of Bacchus, their god of wine; _wherein is excess_ Which is the source of all manner of extravagance, and leads to debauc...
SUBMITTING YOURSELVES; yielding cheerful obedience to proper authority, from regard to God, who established it. This general precept he then proceeds to expand by the mention of particular cases. The...
Things demanded by the correctness of the Christian walk:...
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...
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...
“SUBJECTING YOURSELVES ONE TO ANOTHER IN THE FEAR OF CHRIST” “Subjecting”: “As you stand in awe of Christ, submit to each other's rights” (Knox). “Sometimes. person who claims to be filled with the S...
15-21 Another remedy against sin, is care, or caution, it being impossible else to maintain purity of heart and life. Time is a talent given us by God, and it is misspent and lost when not employed a...
SUBMITTING YOURSELVES ONE TO ANOTHER, viz. to those to whom ye ought to be subject in natural, civil, or church relations. IN THE FEAR OF GOD; either for fear of offending God, the Author of all power...
1 Clement Moreover, ye were all distinguished by humility, and were in no respect puffed up with pride, but yielded obedience rather than extorted it,[5] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV So a...
Ephesians 5:21 submitting G5293 (G5746) another G240 in G1722 fear G5401 God G2316 submitting -...
‘Subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.' The exuberance of the Spirit does not lead to wild abandon but to thoughtful consideration for others and humility. Each is to be ‘subjec...
_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...
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...
Ephesians 5:21. SUBMITTING YOURSELVES ONE TO ANOTHER. While this precept is expounded in several directions in the sections which follow, it stands here as a fourth qualification of being ‘filled with...
SUBJECTING YOURSELVES TO ONE ANOTHER (υποτασσομενο αλληλοις). Present middle participle of υποτασσω, old military figure to line up under (Colossians 3:18). The construction here is rather loose, c...
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...
SUBMIT YOURSELVES. This is the general rule of Christian _community. Reverence for Christ_ is both a motive, and points to the example which Christ himself set for us. Members of the body of Christ ha...
_Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God._ SUBMISSION ONE TO ANOTHER I. In the first place, observe the necessity of the precept. Pride is the great besetting sin of our fallen nature...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 5:19. PSALMS AND HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS.—When the spirit is elevated so that ordinary prose conversation is inadequate to express the feelings let it find...
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 Chronicles 29:24; 1 Corinthians 16:16; 1 Peter 2:13; 1 Peter 2:17;...
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 exhorted the Ephesians to such general duties as belong to all Christians, comes now to exhort them to the practice of relative duties, as they are members of societies, and particu...