Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - Giving thanks always for all things; this being not only a most Christian duty, but an excellent way to keep the heart in good tone, to keep up happy feelings - the duty not being occasional, but "always," and not for things prima facto agreeable only, but...
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 31. - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall come to be one flesh. Quoted in substance from Genesis 2:24. It seems to be introduced simply to show the closeness of the relation between man and ...
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KJV SHARE 9(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?10He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill[1]all things.)
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 ...
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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...
King James Version (KJV) 32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. English Standard Version (ESV) 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. New Livin...
The phrase "of our Lord Jesus Christ" in the KJV, parallel to 1:17, isn't found in the earliest manuscripts and is omitted in modern translations. F.F. Bruce,The Epistles to the Colossians, to Philemon, and to the Ephesians(New International Commentary on the New Testament; Eerdmans, ...
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 28. - Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. A new illustration is introduced here to throw light on the bearing of the husband to his wife, and the οὕτως seems to refer, not to what goes before, but to what follows ...