Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise). The exhortation, based on natural morality (ver. 1), is here confirmed from the Decalogue. "Honor" is higher than obedience (ver. 1); it is the regard due to those who, by Divine...
Pulpit Commentary Verse 11.-Put on the entire amour of God.Chained to a soldier, the apostle's mind would go forth naturally to the subject of amour and warfare. Put on amour, for life is a battle-field; not a scene of soft enjoyment and ease, but of hard conflict, with foes within...
King James Version(KJV) 11Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. English Standard Version(ESV) 11Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. ...
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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 ...
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...
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - For the things that are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of. The groves of Ephesus were notorious for the shamefulness of lust. To speak of such deeds was not only wrong, but shameful; so extreme is the delicacy which Christianity fosters...
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 33. - Nevertheless let each of you severally so love his own wife even as himself. The "nevertheless" refers to the unsolved part of the mystery: whatever may be mysterious, there is no mystery as to this, as to the duty of each husband to love his wife even as...