Ephesians 5:20
What meaning of the ephesians 5:20 in the Bible?
What does Ephesians 5:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;"
What does Ephesians 5:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;"
Verse 20. _GIVING THANKS ALWAYS_] God is continually loading you with his benefits; you _deserve_ nothing of his kindness; therefore give him thanks for his unmerited bounties. _GOD AND THE FATHER_]...
GIVING THANKS ALWAYS - This is probably designed to be connected with the preceding verse, and to denote that the proper subject of psalms and hymns is thanksgiving and praise. This is indeed always t...
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 5:1)...
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)...
GIVING THANKS. See Ephesians 5:4; Ephesians 1:16. ALWAYS. App-151. AND. even. FATHER. App-98. THE NAME. See Acts 2:38. LORD JESUS CHRIST. See Ephesians 1:17 and App-98....
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...
ΕΥ̓ΧΑΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ ΠΆΝΤΟΤΕ ὙΠῈΡ ΠΆΝΤΩΝ. Cf. Ephesians 5:4; 1 Thessalonians 5:16 ff.; Colossians 3:17. The tone of spiritual exhilaration that St Paul requires is strange in this context, where no effort...
ΕΎΧΑΡΙΣΤΟΎΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΕΎΧΑΡΙΣΤΈΩ (G2168) быть благодарным, благодарить. ΠΆΝΤΟΤΕ (G3842) всегда....
DISCOURSE: 2120 THE BELIEVER FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST Ephesians 5:18. _Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your h...
GIVING THANKS ALWAYS, &C.— "Giving thanks to God for all the favours that he has bestowed upon you, and even for your afflictions, as occasions offer for the trial, the illustration, and improvement o...
_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 not even name vices as if the...
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; THANKS ALWAYS FOR ALL THINGS - even for adversities; also for blessings, unknown as well as known...
__ 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...
5:20 is] (g-12) 'To him who is.' This alone gives the sense. 'God, even the Father,' might be taken as meaning that the Father only is God, and it is far from exact as a translation....
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 c...
GIVING THANKS ALWAYS FOR ALL THINGS. — This temper of universal and pervading thankfulness is dwelt upon in the First Epistle to the Thessalonians (1 Thessalonians 5:18) as indissolubly united with un...
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 examp...
A paragraph closely connected with the former, and specifying various things belonging to the correctness and consistency of the Christian walk....
“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 pra...
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....
Teaching One Another In Song Paul directed individual Christians to teach each other through spiritual, vocal music (Matthew 26:30; Acts 16:25). Hendren says, "The participle 'speaking' is plural, sug...
(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...
20._Giving thanks always. _He means that this is a pleasure which ought never to lose its relish; that this is an exercise of which we ought never to weary. Innumerable benefits which we receive from...
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...
GIVING THANKS ALWAYS FOR ALL THINGS,.... For things temporal, for our beings, and the preservation of them, and for all the mercies of life; for things spiritual, for Christ, and for all spiritual ble...
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Ver. 20. _Giving thanks always_] In our deepest miseries let us sing cheerfully, as Paul and Silas in...
_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...
Things demanded by the correctness of the Christian walk:...
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...
“GIVING THANKS ALWAYS FOR ALL THINGS IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO GOD, EVEN THE FATHER” “Giving thanks”: This is. common appeal in Paul's letters (Colossians 3:15; 1 Thessalonians 5:18). Th...
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...
GIVING THANKS ALWAYS: God still by fresh mercies gives fresh occasion for thanksgiving, and we must accordingly continue our thanksgiving through the whole course of our lives without weariness. FOR A...
Ephesians 5:20 thanks G2168 (G5723) always G3842 for G5228 things G3956 God G2316 G2532 Father G3962 in G1722 name G3686 our G2257 Lord G2962 Jesus G2424 Christ G5547 thanks - Ephesians 5:4; Job 1:21...
‘Speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God...
_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...
IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST (εν ονοματ του Κυριου ημων Ιησου Χριστου). Jesus had told the disciples to use his name in prayer (John 16:23).TO GOD, EVEN THE FATHER (τω θεω κα πατρ). Rathe...
Ephesians 5:20 I. The duty of giving thanks is that duty which of all others may be declared natural to man, and which can be declined by none but those whose dispositions almost prove themselves not...
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...
ALWAYS GIVE THANKS. _Thanksgiving_ is a form of praise and is to always be the attitude of the Christian, no matter what the external circumstances might be!!! IN THE NAME. Compare Colossians 3:17 and...
_Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ._ THANKFULNESS TO GOD I. The duty here enjoined is to give thanks. Thankfulness is such a sense of...
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. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ v...
_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 fin...
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 Corinthians 1:4; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Peter 4:11; 1 Thessalonians 3:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:18; 2 Thessalonians 1:3; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; Acts 5:41; Colossians 1:11;...
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....
Giving thanks — At all times and places. And for all things — Prosperous or adverse, since al] work together for good. In the name of, or through, our Lord Jesus Christ — By whom we receive all good t...
The next duty St. Paul exhorts to, is that of spiritual THANKSGIVING. Where note, 1. The time when it ought to be performed: ALWAYS; that is, at least every day, and upon every solemn occasion, keepi...