Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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 ...
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - For through him both of us have our access by one Spirit unto the Father. Further illustration of identity of position of Jews and Gentiles, and of the work of Christ in bringing it about. Subject of this verse, access to the Father; predicate, this access ...
Ephesians 5:25 Meaning and Commentary Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives Which consists in a strong and cordial affection for them; in a real delight and pleasure in them; in showing respect, and doing honour to them; in seeking their contentment, satisfaction, and pleasure; in a ...
Ephesians 4:29 Meaning and Commentary Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, &c.] As unsavoury speech, foolish talking, light and frothy language, that which is filthy, unprofitable, noxious, and nauseous, and all that is sinful; such as profane oaths, cur...
The key term for his admonition is “walk,” which occurs four times in the section: “walk not as other Gentiles” (4:17 KJV); “walk in love” (5:2); “walk as children of light” (5:8) and “walk responsibly redeeming the time” (5:15). The section includes important ...
Zondervan KJV Commentary Plus 3 entries Dictionaries Dictionary of Bible Themes 48 entries Dictionary of Biblical Prophecy and End Times Plus 4 entries Easton's Bible Dictionary 4 entries Essential Bible Dictionary Plus 2 entries Mounce's Complete Expository Dictionary Plus 12 entries New Internat...
This phrase "inner being" (NIV, NRSV) or "inner man" (KJV) is made up of two words: anthropos, the generic noun for man, mankind, humankind, with no reflection of male gender, and the adverb of place esō, "inside, within."25See similar expressions in Romans 7:22 and 2 Corinthians...
So e.g. Barth (p. 580ff). The RSV "addressing one another" is preferable to the KJV "speaking to yourselves", for the reflexive pronounheantoishere can be used for the reciprocal pronounallēlōn(cf. verse 21). So Arndt and Gingrich,Lexicon(p. 211), meaning 3. Cf. Simpson and Bruce...
Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - Even when we were dead in our sins. Repeated from ver. 1, in order to set in its true light the declaration that follows of what God did for us to make more emphatic the free and sovereign mercy of God. Though sin is the abominable thing which he hates,...