Verse 19. - Who being past feeling. Without sense of shame, without conscience, without fear of God or regard for man, without any perception of the dignity of human nature, the glory of the Divine image, or the degradation of sin. Have given themselves over to lasciviousness to work ...
Ephesians 4:17-19 New International Version Instructions for Christian Living 17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life...
a trueParembole, 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...
or a deposit—which is the Holy Spirit within us. Paul would not say in verses 13-14 that all believers have the Spirit, and then pray here in verse 17 for God to give them the Spirit. They
Verse 19. - And what the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe. A new object of knowledge is here brought forward - knowledge of a power which works in us - a great power, a Divine power, a power surpassingly great. The whole energy of the Divine Being is turned on...
the verse, and anyone who claims to have found that construct in Ignatius is reading something he did not write. In fact, if we were to take Mr. Charles’ approach seriously, we would have found in the longer recension not only an unending line of priests that succeededfrom the Seventy,...
他在基督里曾赐给我们天上各样属灵的福气, 4 就如神从创立世界以前在基督里拣选了我们,使我们在他面前成为圣洁,无有瑕疵; 5 又因爱我们,就按着自己意旨所喜悦的,预定我们借着耶稣基督得儿子的名分, 6 使他荣耀的恩典得着称赞。这恩典是他在爱子里所赐给我们的。 7 我们借这爱子的血得蒙救赎...
Danker (4.g) notes that often eis = "for" in general, and cites this verse. BDAG 288-291. BDAG 565. Kratos denotes "power and strength," such as physical strength, or the power possessed by men, rulers, or gods. It can also be a title of royalty as a well as to mean "rule...
That’s why today, I smile at the verse I read first thing this week. Perhaps a mild chastening from my heavenly Father in that John 9:4 exhorted me, “We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned to us by the one who sent us.” Because that’s what the previous week’s compulsion...
so that his 'fullness' resides at the chosen place and manifests itself with power..." The termplērōma"must mean the act by which God makes his power and presence felt." In verse 19, Barth renders the phrase, "Filled with all the fullness of God," as "May you become so perfect...