Verse 8. - For by grace have ye been saved, through faith. He repeats what he had said parenthetically (ver. 5), in order to open the subject up more fully. On the part of God, salvation is by grace; on the part of man, it is through faith. It does not come to us by an ...
--In this verse the two meanings again unite. In the original the order is emphatic: "Through Him we have the access, both of us in one Spirit, to the Father." The greater idea of access to God is still prominent; but the lesser idea of union with each other in that access is ...
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding
Ephesians 1:11 tn Grk“in whom,” as a continuation of the previous verse. Ephesians 1:11 tn Grk“we were appointed by lot.” The notion of the verb κληρόω (klēroō) in the OT was to “appoint a portion by lot” (the more frequent cognate verb κληρονομέω ...
Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath." (Ephesians 2:2-3)"The power of the air" (verse 2) is an interesting expression. "Power" (KJV, ESV), "ruler" (NIV, NRSV) is, literally, "authority ... the power exercised by rulers or others in high position by virtue of ...
being complete in itself. This should be carefully noted so that we may connect the "Therefore" of chapter 4:1 with chapter 2:22. There is also contained within chapter 3 another parenthesis, vv. 2-13, with verse 14 taking up the subject (which was broken off in vs. 1) and repeating...
I include this verse here because of the the way the section is normally broken. But actually this verse is the main verse which will be expanded upon in the rest of the chapter and in chapter 6. "Submit to one another" does not mean for everyone to submit to everyone else. For submi...
Ephesians 4:12 shows us that the Foremen are to do one thing, and one thing only. They are to equip the saints. The rest of verse 12 indicates what the saints are supposed to do. The KJV has caused much confusion in this area because of an unfortunate comma inserted after the word ...
"Might" (KJV) or "power" (NIV, NRSV) is the Greek noundunamis, that we encountered in verse 19. Here it refers to "an entity or being, whether human or transcendent, that functions in a remarkable manner."[15] "Dominion" (KJV, NIV, NRSV) is the Greek nounkuriotes."[16] ...
Verse 11 has one of those huge errors in translation that the NIV sometimes has. It baffles me why the translators took this liberty here, but they did, and so I want to correct it for you today (Author’s Note: I have since switched to the NKJV). The NAS and the KJV have it ...