Ephesians 4:17-19 Darby Translation Ephesians 4:17-19 New International Version Instructions for Christian Living 17So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longerlive as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.18They are darkened in their understanding...
Verse 26.-Be ye angry, and sin not.Quotation from the Septuagint version ofPsalm 4:5. Anger, the feeling and expression of displeasure, is not wholly forbidden, but is guarded by two checks. Our Lord did not make anger a breach of the sixth commandment, but being angry with a brother...
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the
The final phrase in this verse – being rooted and grounded in love – is what Christ wants to do with the power from God through the Spirit. Christ wants to root and ground us in love. Rooted brings to mind trees. A tree must have it’s roots deep in good soil and with lots of...
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,...
Finally, in the first part of verse 19, Paul prays for his readers to knowhis incomparably great power for us who believe. The world wants power today, doesn’t it? Those who are of the world believe that money and prestige and position, will get them power. Well, let me tell you,...
25See similar expressions in Romans 7:22 and 2 Corinthians 4:16, and the idea expressed in Jeremiah 31:33; Romans 2:29; and 1 Peter 3:4. Petition 3b: Christ Dwelling in Your Hearts (3:17a) In verse 16 Paul prays that the Ephesian believers may be strengthened in the inner being. ...
It is significant that seeing an implied imperative in this verse affords a certain symmetry to the author’s thought in vv. 15-21: There are three main sections (vv. 15-16, v. 17, vv. 18-21), each of which provides a negative injunction, followed by a positive injunction, followed ...
Go ad-free and access insights alongside every verse—start your Bible study with Bible Gateway Plus. Log In/Sign Up Bible Book List Font Size Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content以弗所书 2 Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified) 靠恩典、凭信心 2 你们从前死在过犯和罪恶之中。 ...
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,预定我们藉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 我们藉这爱子的血得蒙救赎,过犯得以赦免,乃是照他丰富的恩典。 8 这恩典...