Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ephesians 5:7
Be not ye therefore partakers with them - Since these things displease God and expose to his wrath, avoid them.
Be not ye therefore partakers with them - Since these things displease God and expose to his wrath, avoid them.
Verse 7. _BE NOT YE THEREFORE PARTAKERS WITH THEM_] Do not act as your fellow citizens do; nor suffer their philosophy, to it in _vain words_, κενοις λογοις, with _empty_ and illusive _doctrines_, to...
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...
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)...
BE. Become. PARTAKERS. partners. See Ephesians 3:6....
_Be not_ Lit., BECOME NOT. _Nolite fieri_(Latin versions). _partakers_ in disobedience, and so in the coming wrath....
17–5:14. THE GREAT CONTRAST Ephesians 4:25 to Ephesians 5:14. THE CONTRAST IN DETAIL...
ΜῊ ΓΊΝΕΣΘΕ, ‘do not develope into,’ ‘prove in the end,’ implying danger, but not actual failure, cf. Ephesians 5:17. ΣΥΝΜΈΤΟΧΟΙ, ct. Ephesians 3:6. There is solidarity in evil as well as in good. The...
ΓΊΝΕΣΘΕ _praes. ind._/imp. _med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться, ΣΥΜΜΈΤΟΧΟΣ (G4830) партнер, напарник, тот, кто совместно обладает чем-л....
DISCOURSE: 2115 FATAL CONSEQUENCES OF INDULGED SIN Ephesians 5:5. _This ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of C...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 5:3-20) 3. Walk as children of light. Ephesians 5:3-14. a. Things the children of light do not do. Ephesians 5:3-8 a. (1) Do no
Be not ye therefore partakers with them. BE NOT - `Become not' [ ginesthe (G1096)]: fall not into association with them. Here fellowship with wicked workers is forbidden: in Ephesians 5:11, with t...
__ 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...
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_b_) Ephesians 5:3 warn, with even greater fulness and emphasis, against the sins of impurity and lust, as incompatible with membership of the kingdom of heaven, as works of darkness, impossible to...
CHAPTER 23 THE CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT Ephesians 5:7 The contrast between the Christian and heathen way of life is now, finally, to be set forth under St. Paul's familiar figure of the light and the d...
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 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...
μὴ οὖν γίνεσθε συμμέτοχοι αὐτῶν : _become not ye then partakers with them_. γίνεσθε again = “do not become,” “suffer not yourselves to be”; not ἐστε, “be not”. What is meant is a possible falling back...
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....
Things Love Will Not Let One Do Those whose lives are directed by love will not indulge in any uncontrolled lusts, whether sexual or monetary in nature. Paul says even talking about such thoughts tend...
(3) Be not ye therefore partakers with them. (3) Because we are most ready to follow evil examples, therefore the apostle warns the godly to always remember that the others are but as it were darkness...
_Be ye not, therefore, partakers with them: do not imitate their wickedness, or the wrath of the Almighty will likewise fall on you. (Estius)_...
(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...
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. 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...
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 NOT YE THEREFORE PARTAKERS WITH THEM. In their sins, and acts of disobedience; by keeping needless company with them; by abetting and encouraging sinful practices; by conniving at them, and not rep...
Be not ye therefore partakers with them. Ver. 7. _Be not ye therefore partakers_] Lest by infection of their sin ye come under infliction of their punishment. We are accountable as well for sins of c...
_For this ye know_ Of this ye cannot be ignorant, favoured as you have been with the light of the gospel, _that no whoremonger, &c., hath any inheritance_ Here or hereafter; _in the kingdom of Christ...
Those who maintain that continuance in sin will not exclude men from heaven are deceivers. As such they should be treated, and their doctrines be rejected....
BE NOT YE, THEREFORE, PARTAKERS WITH THEM....
The children of light avoid the works of darkness:...
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 not ye therefore partakers with them” “BE”: “Lit., become not. It is. warning against lapsing into old vices” _(Vincent p. 399). _“Partakers with them”: With them in these sins. “The Greek word re...
3-14 Filthy lusts must be rooted out. These sins must be dreaded and detested. Here are not only cautions against gross acts of sin, but against what some may make light of. But these things are so f...
With those children of disobedience, who continue in the forementioned sins: see JOB 34:8 PSALMS 50:18....
Tertullian On Modesty Again to the Ephesians: "Be not, then, partners with them: for ye were at one time darkness."[223]...
Ephesians 5:7 Therefore G3767 not G3361 be G1096 (G5737) partakers G4830 them G846 Ephesi
‘You, therefore, do not be partakers with them.' His command is straight. Have nothing to do with them or with such things. See 1 Corinthians 5:4 for the way such things should be treated in the chur...
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 5:7. BECOME; not ‘be,' but a warning against what might take place. THEREFORE; because of the fact stated in the last clause. PARTAKERS WITH THEM, _i.e.,_ ‘the sons of disobedience;' sha...
PARTAKERS WITH THEM (συνμετοχο αυτων). Late double compound, only here in N.T., joint (συν) shares with (μετοχο) them (αυτων). These Gnostics....
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...
SO. "Do not share in their crimes, or you will share in their punishment!" Compare 1 Corinthians 5:9-13; 2 Corinthians 6:14 and notes....
_Be not ye therefore partakers with them._ FELLOWSHIP WITH EVIL DOERS I. Illustrate this fellowship in wickedness. 1. Not to oppose, in many cases, is to embolden transgressors, and to be partakers...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:7 BECOME PARTNERS. Christians must not join unbelievers in their sin. ⇐...
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 5:3. LET IT NOT BE ONCE NAMED.—After the things themselves are dead let their names never be heard. Ephesians 5:4. NOR JESTING.—“Chastened insolence,” as Ar...
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 Timothy 5:22; Ephesians 5:11; Numbers 16:26; Proverbs 1:10;...
Be not [γ ι ν ε σ θ ε]. Lit., become not. It is a warning against lapsing into old vices....
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....