Children do this, because they love us and they know they are loved. Children are born imitators. Which is what Paul says here in Ephesians 5:1. The word used here fordearis the Greek word for beloved. It isagapeta.We all recognize that as a form of the wordagape,which we know as...
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◄Ephesians 5:12► Verse(Click for Chapter) New International Version It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. New Living Translation It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret. ...
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. Ephesians 5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. Jump to Previous...
“But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved”(Ephesians 2:4-5). “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called childre...
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. (Ephesians 5:31-32). Think about it: Two far-from-perfect people are covenanting...
Then, in Ephesians 5, ekklesia shows up six times. Christ is “the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior” (5:23). The church “is subject to Christ” (5:24). Christ “loved the church and gave himself up for her” (5:25). Christ seeks “to present the chu...
Why is it so important for us to understandagape? This word appears twice in Ephesians 5:25: “Husbands, love [agape] your wives, just as Christ also loved [agape] the church and gave Himself for her.” Agape is the love husbands are commanded to have for their wives, and it is the...
One of the most referenced Bible verses on the topic of being filled with the spirit is Ephesians 5:18 which says "Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit".Being filled with the Spirit is not only a single event, but it is a continual...
And additionally, back then our word theos was understood in the etymological context of what it represented. It was a word that clearly came out of a verbal neighborhood that included everyday verbs and adjectives that all had to do with what theos meant. In other words: back then, even ...