It was the capital of the *Roman region calledAsia. Poetical Books Paul was an example of this truly Christian temper, for he became all things to all men. Walk in love, and shun fornication and all uncleanness. 5 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; 2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. ", 12. Still the Church is termed "holy" in the creed, in reference to her ideal and ultimate destination. I. The natural marriage, wherein "a man leaves father and mother (the oldest manuscripts omit 'his') and is joined unto his wife," is not the principal thing meant here, but the spiritual marriage represented by it, and on which it rests, whereby Christ left the Father's bosom to woo to Himself the Church out of a lost world: Eph 5:32 proves this: His earthly mother as such, also, He holds in secondary account as compared with His spiritual Bride ( Luk 2:48, 49 8:19-21 11:27, 28 ). This godlike grace should conduct and influence our whole conversation, which is meant by walking in it. 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The "for" gives his reason for "not naming" (compare Eph 5:3 ) in detail the works of darkness, whereas he describes definitely ( Eph 5:9 ) "the fruit of the light" [BENGEL]. "Uncleanness" and "covetousness" are taken up again from Eph 4:19. Major Prophets unto God and the Father--the Fountain of every blessing in Creation, Providence, Election, and Redemption. Another type, or prophecy by figure, was "the sweet savor" ("savor of rest," Margin) which God smelled in Noah's sacrifice ( Gen 8:21 ). "Redeem" implies the preciousness of the opportune season, a jewel to be bought at any price. Christ will never allow any power to sever Himself and His bride, indissolubly joined ( Mat 19:6 Jhn 10:28, 29 13:1 ). Wisdom Literature The Gospels Thus reverential fear of displeasing Him is the motive for discharging our relative duties as Christians ( 1Cr 10:22 2Cr 5:11 1Pe 2:13 ). Expose them instead. ... Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness. The apostle directs to the conscientious discharge of relative duties, from. . We must be holy as God is holy, merciful as he is merciful, perfect as he is perfect. Be you imitators of God, or resemble him, in every grace, and especially in his love, and in his pardoning goodness. Wisdom Literature To fortify us against the sins of uncleanness, etc., the apostle urges several arguments, and prescribes several remedies, in what follows. As Christ also hath loved us. Pious persons should imitate the God whom they worship, as far as he has revealed himself as imitable by them. 5:… Johannine Writings For--Supply, and we all love ourselves: "For no man," &c. Neither filthiness (v. 4), by which may be understood all wanton and unseemly gestures and behaviour; nor foolish talking, obscene and lewd discourse, or, more generally, such vain discourse as betrays much folly and indiscretion, and is far from edifying the hearers; nor jesting. "Sermon Notes for Ephesians 5:15." The apostle had been insisting on this in the former chapter, and particularly in the last verses of it, to which the particle therefore refers, and connects what he had said there with what is contained in these verses, thus: "Because God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven you, therefore be you followers of God, or imitators of him;' for so the word signifies. covetous. . In natural marriage, husband and wife combine the elements of one perfect human being: the one being incomplete without the other. Though Christianity is an enemy to profane mirth, yet it encourages joy and gladness, and the proper expressions of these in the professors of it. -------------------- Compare Jhn 17:19, meaning, "I devote Myself as a holy sacrifice, that My disciples also may be devoted or consecrated as holy in (through) the truth" [NEANDER] ( Hbr 2:11 10:10 13:12 see on JF & B for Heb 10:10). Wherefore--seeing that ye need to walk so circumspectly, choosing and using the right opportunity of good. 25. once named--Greek, "Let it not be even named" ( Ephesians 5:4 Ephesians 5:12 ). It is not our bones and flesh, but "we" that are spiritually propagated (in our soul and spirit now, and in the body hereafter, regenerated) from the manhood of Christ which has flesh and bones. Note, As the sacrifice of Christ was efficacious with God, so his example should be prevailing with us, and we should carefully copy after it. John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible 2020. Minor Prophets The children of unbelief in doctrine ( Deu 32:20 ) are "children of disobedience" in practice, and these again are "children of wrath.". However, IRENAEUS, 294, and the old Latin and Vulgate versions, with some good old manuscripts, have them. Cookie Notice: followers--Greek, "imitators" of God, in respect to "love" ( Eph 5:2 ): God's essential character ( 1Jo 4:16 ). . Where there is this mutual condescension and submission, the duties of all relations will be the better performed. Eph 5:2. Christ gave himself to die for us; and the death of Christ was the great sacrifice of atonement: An offering and a sacrifice to God; or an offering, even a sacrifice-a propitiatory sacrifice, to expiate our guilt, which had been prefigured in the legal oblations and sacrifices; and this for a sweet-smelling savour. But he doesn’t allow us any exceptions! Minor Prophets Now these sins must be dreaded and detested in the highest degree: Let it not be once named among you, never in a way of approbation nor without abhorrence, as becometh saints, holy persons, who are separated from the world, and dedicated unto God. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point Prophets Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness. As the bride passed through a purifying bath before marriage, so the Church (compare Rev 21:2 ). . 2. The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, 11. unfruitful works of darkness--Sins are terminated in themselves, and therefore are called "works," not "fruits" ( Gal 5:19, 22 ). Your consistent lives and faithful reproofs will be your "armor of light" ( Rom 13:12 ) in making an inroad on the kingdom of darkness. 29 Dec 2020. As dear children, as children (who are wont to be greatly beloved by their parents) usually resemble them in the lineaments and features of their faces, and in the dispositions and qualities of their minds; or as becomes the children of God, who are beloved and cherished by their heavenly Father. 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Ephesians 5:5 “For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God” “For this ye know”: The Ephesians had already heard these truths before (Galatians 5:19-21). -------------------- We had several important exhortations in the close of the foregoing chapter, and they are continued in this: particularly. Bible Reference. King James Version (KJV) Public Domain . -------------------- Eph 5:24 Poetical Books conservative Christian faith, which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy 21. These verses contain a caution against all manner of uncleanness, with proper remedies and arguments proposed: some further cautions are added, and other duties recommended. The Greek word for always means always, constantly, in every situation, including our trials. the course of this world--the career (literally, "the age," compare Galatians 1:4 ), or present system of … For--Greek, "Because" ( 1Cr 6:15 ). Here the apostle directs us to the example of Christ, whom Christians are obliged to imitate, and in whom we have an instance of the most free and generous love that ever was, that great love wherewith he hath loved us. They are so far from being profitable that they pollute and poison the hearers. The relation of the Church to Christ is the ground of Christianity's having raised woman to her due place in the social scale, from which she was, and is, excluded in heathen lands. Blue Letter Bible. 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The apostle designedly enlarges on the subject; for what can yield us more delightful matter for contemplation than this? GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, (Hebrew/Greek Search by English Definition), * 'Number Delimiters' only apply to 'Paragraph Order', Search verses, phrases, and topics (e.g. The Greek of it, and of "filthiness," occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. Lord Jesus Christ--by whom all things, even distresses, become ours ( Rom 8:35, 37 1Cr 3:20-23 ). Another remedy against sin is circumspection, care, or caution (. -------------------- Historical Books 10 Try to understand what is good and pleasing to the Lord. Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of … Prophets We must be of a yielding and of a submissive spirit, and ready to all the duties of the respective places and stations that God has allotted to us in the world. Here ( Ephesians 5:31) Paul quoted verbatim the passage from Genesis 2:24, making it the Scriptural basis of the grand analogy between Adam I and Adam II, between Eve and the bride of Christ. Thus the "for" expresses this, Reprove them, for to speak of them without reproving them, is a shame ( Eph 5:3 ). Exd 21:10 prescribes three duties to the husband. or, "Rouse thee!" The believer passes from under the bondage of the law as a letter, to be "the servant of Christ" ( 1Cr 7:22 ), which, through the instinct of love to Him, is really to be "the Lord's freeman"; for he is "under the law to Christ" ( 1Cr 9:21; compare Jhn 8:36 ). Eph 5:15 ¶ See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Eph 5:16 : Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 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As, therefore, He brought to His feet one that so treated Him, and that even wantonly spurned Him, by much tenderness of regard, not by threats, insults, and terror: so also do you act towards your wife, and though you see her disdainful and wantonly wayward, you will be able to bring her to your feet by much thoughtfulness for "Cleansing" is the necessary preliminary to both. Bible Commentaries Coffman Commentaries on the Bible Ephesians. Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness. And there is no doubt an innocent and inoffensive jesting, which we cannot suppose the apostle here forbids. of Scripture. Again, as what Christ is, believers also are ( 1Jo 4:17 ), and ministers are: Paul says ( Gen 2:21, 23, 24 puts the bones first because the reference there is to the natural structure. Translate, "foolish," or "senseless." The *apostle Paul wrote this letter when he wasin a prison in Rome. It was a busy port and the centre of much trade. As Adam gave Eve a new name, Hebrew, "Isha," "woman," formed from his own rib, Ish, "man," signifying her formation from him, so Christ, Rev 2:17 3:12. The offerer, and the offering that He offered, were one and the same ( Jhn 15:13 Rom 5:8 ). All uncleanness includes all other sorts of filthy lusts, which were too common among the Gentiles. General Epistles In a narrower sense, special favorable seasons for good, occasionally presenting themselves, are referred to, of which believers ought diligently to avail themselves. The ointment compounded of principal spices, poured upon Aaron's head, answers to the variety of the graces by which He was enabled to "offer Himself a sacrifice for a sweet-smelling savor." the Lord--The oldest manuscripts read, "Christ." 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