Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ephesians 5:15
Circumspectly — Exactly, with the utmost accuracy, getting to the highest pitch of every point of holiness. Not as fools — Who think not where they are going, or do not make the best of their way.
Circumspectly — Exactly, with the utmost accuracy, getting to the highest pitch of every point of holiness. Not as fools — Who think not where they are going, or do not make the best of their way.
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Verse 15. _WALK CIRCUMSPECTLY_] Our word _circumspect_, from the Latin _circirmspicio_, signifies to look round about on all hands; to be every way watchful, wary, and cautious, in order to avoid dan...
SEE THEN THAT YE WALK CIRCUMSPECTLY - carefully, anxiously, solicitous lest you fall into sin. The word rendered “circumspectly” - ἀκριβῶς akribōs - means “diligently,” and the idea here is, that t...
3. THE WALK IN HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS Chapter S 4:17-5:21 _ 1. Not as the Gentiles walk (Ephesians 4:17)_ 2. The putting off and putting on (Ephesians 4:20) 3. Followers of God (Ephesians 5
THE WAY OF LIGHT AND THE WAY OF DARKNESS. There are other sins which among God's people, should be literally unmentionable fornication, uncleanness, coveting, filthiness, foolish speech, improper jest...
THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
Be very careful how you live. Do not live like unwise men, but like wise men. Use your time with all economy for these are evil days. That is the reason why you must not be senseless, but you must und...
SEE. App-133. CIRCUMSPECTLY. App-125. FOOLS. unwise. Greek. _asophos_. only here. WISE. Greek. _sophos_. First occurance: Matthew 11:25....
The subject pursued: the talent of time: temperance: spiritual songs: thanksgiving: humility 15. _See then_ The more general exhortation to a holy life-walk is resumed here, after the special entreat...
15. For a life according to this ideal St Paul feels that two qualities are pre-eminently necessary, ‘moral thoughtfulness’ and spiritual enthusiasm overflowing at once in thankfulness to God and in d...
ΒΛΈΠΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΒΛΈΠΩ (G991) наблюдать, остерегаться, ΆΚΡΙΒΏΣ (G199) _adv._ отвечает на вопрос, как человек должен строить свою жизнь: аккуратно, внимательно, ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΕΊΤΕ _praes. ind....
DISCOURSE: 2119 REDEEMING THE TIME Ephesians 5:15. _See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil_. WHILE the Christian has so many cor...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 5:3-20) 3. Walk as children of light. Ephesians 5:3-14. a. Things the children of light do not do. Ephesians 5:3-8 a. (1) Do no
(5:15,16) "Wisdom" is the application of biblical principles to your personal experience. Anything else would be living according to the dictates of the Old Nature, driven by the father of deceit. Her...
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, THAT, [ poos (G4459)] - 'see how ye walk,' etc.; comprising the double idea. 'see how ye walk,' and 'that ye walk circumspectly.' The...
__ No Participation with Unbelievers 2 The sacrifice of Christ has many aspects. The opening Chapter s of Leviticus deal with these in detail. The sin and trespass offering seem to be entirely for m...
THE OLD DARKNESS AND NEW LIGHT. RULES FOR THE MARRIED 1, 2. In close connexion with what precedes. 'It is the mark of beloved children to become imitators of a loving Father; practise the self-sacrif...
Then or 'therefore' marks the return to exhortation, and walk refers back to Ephesians 5:2; Ephesians 5:8. RV is everywhere better: 'Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise.'...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 5 5:1-14 ~ LOVE 5:1-7 ~ LIVE IN LOVE V1 You must try to be as much like God as you can. You are his...
SEE THEN THAT YE WALK (properly, _how ye walk_) CIRCUMSPECTLY. — The word rendered “circumspectly” is properly _strictly,_ or _accurately_ — generally used of intellectual accuracy or thoroughness (as...
CHAPTER 24 THE NEW WINE OF THE SPIRIT Ephesians 5:15 Very solemnly did the moral homily to the Asian Christians begin in Ephesians 4:17: "This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, that you must...
CHAPTER 22 DOCTRINE AND ETHICS Ephesians 4:25; Ephesians 5:1 The homily that we have briefly reviewed in the last chapter demands further consideration. It affords a striking and instructive exampl...
A paragraph closely connected with the former, and specifying various things belonging to the correctness and consistency of the Christian walk....
βλέπετε οὖν πῶς ἀκριβῶς [ἀκριβῶς πως] περιπατεῖτε : _take heed then how ye walk with strictness_ [or, _take heed carefully how ye walk_]. The writer passes from the statement of the need of the ἔλεγξι...
“REDEEMING THE TIME” Ephesians 5:13 The earlier verses remind us of Isaiah 60:1. Awake, thou Christian soul; arise from the, dust and put on thy beautiful garments! Stand on the mountain-peak of pray...
All that the apostle had been saying was emphasized by the statement of their relationship to God as he called them to be "imitators of God." Again he urged them to put off the old and put on the new....
Walking In Wisdom Fools hear the sound of Jesus' voice but do not do the things he says (Matthew 7:24-27). Even Christians must live carefully, or accurately, so as to obey the Lord's commandments an...
(4) See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, (4) The worse and more corrupt that the manners of this world are, the more watchful we ought to be in every situation, and give re...
(15) See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, (16) Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. (17) Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is...
In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
I. INTRODUCTION A. As we return to the book of Ephesians, we continue our study on Christian behavior. 1. The Apostle Paul has just given the Ephesian Christians, (and us) a "list" of ungodly behavi...
15._See then. _If believers must not neglect to drive away the darkness of others by their own brightness, how much less ought they to be blind as to their own conduct in life? What darkness shall con...
Moreover, let us remark here, and it is an important feature in this picture of the fruits of grace and of the new man, that when the grace and love, which come down from God, act in man, they always...
SEE THEN THAT YE WALK CIRCUMSPECTLY,.... The Alexandrian copy and the Vulgate Latin version read, "see then, brethren", it being an exhortation to the saints at Ephesus, upon the foregoing discourse a...
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Ver. 15. _See then that ye walk circumspectly_] Precisely, exactly, accurately, by line and by rule, and as it were in a frame, strivin...
_See then_ That you may be fit to reprove sin in others; _that ye_ Yourselves, upon whom the light of Christ already shines; _walk circumspectly_ Ακριβως, _accurately_, with the utmost exactness; maki...
CIRCUMSPECTLY; with caution and habitual regard to what is God's will. Verse Ephesians 5:10. NOT AS FOOLS; regardless of danger. BUT AS WISE; perceiving the evil, and avoiding it-the good, and pursui...
SEE, THEN, THAT YE WALK CIRCUMSPECTLY, NOT AS FOOLS, BUT AS WISE,...
Things demanded by the correctness of the Christian walk:...
WALK IN LOVE (vs.1-7) Verses 1 and 2 of chapter 5 are closely connected with verse 32 of chapter 4. God's gracious character of love that delights to have us as His dear children is our example. The...
CHAPTER 5 We must not follow the ways of the old man. We must be ______________ of God. He is our Father. We are his _____________. We must __________ in love because Christ loved us. He gave himsel...
“LOOK THEREFORE CAREFULLY HOW YE WALK, NOT AS UNWISE, BUT AS WISE” “Look therefore”: “THE PRESENT TENSE MEANS TO ‘WATCH AND KEEP ON WATCHING' IN AN ACCURATE, CAREFUL WAY” _(BOLES P. 305)._ “Carefully”...
15-21 Another remedy against sin, is care, or caution, it being impossible else to maintain purity of heart and life. Time is a talent given us by God, and it is misspent and lost when not employed a...
SEE THEN THAT YE WALK CIRCUMSPECTLY; being called to reprove the evil conversation of others, see that ye walk exactly and accurately yourselves, avoiding extremes and keeping close to the rule. See t...
Dubious Hippolytus Fragments See that ye walk circumspectly, because the days are evil."[42] The Second Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity and let us "not be as the foolish, but as the wise,"...
Ephesians 5:15 See G991 (G5720) then G3767 that G4459 walk G4043 (G5719) circumspectly G199 not G3361 as...
‘Look therefore carefully how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, buying up the time because the days are evil.' The Christian is to live a life of careful thought. He does not blunder blindly on but...
Ephesians 5:15. TAKE HEED THEN. This is a resumption of the exhortations, after the digression of Ephesians 5:12-14. STRICTLY HOW (not, ‘that') YE WALK. The order of words in the oldest authorities j...
III. GENERAL CHRISTIAN DUTIES. This part of the Epistle is difficult to analyze. The ethical precepts are not arranged in any discoverable logical order. For convenience a division into two sections i...
_2. Precepts based upon the Self-sacrificing Love of Christ._ The connection of thought with chap. Ephesians 4:32 is very close; God's forgiving love is directly presented as a motive (‘therefore') fo...
CAREFULLY (ακριβως). Aleph B 17 put ακριβως before πως (how) instead of πως ακριβως (how exactly ye walk) as the Textus Receptus has it. On ακριβως (from ακριβης) see Matthew 2:8; Luke 1:3.UNWISE...
Ephesians 5:15 Christian Prudence. I. We Christians were never meant to be remiss and insensible; Christ came to redeem and renew us in every legitimate faculty and every salutary use of it. It was n...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye therefore followers of God,_ Or, imitators of God,- Ephesians 5:1. _As dear children;_ Children are naturally imitators. They are usually inclined to imitate their father; thi...
CONTENTS: Walk of the believer as God's child. The believer's warfare as filled with the Spirit. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: As members of the family of God, it is our duty to put on...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye followers of God as dear children,_ for children are expected to walk in their father's steps. He sends us rain and fruitful seasons, he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the...
TO HOW YOU LIVE. "Wise men see the ethical side of truth and pay close attention to their life style. Ignorant men do not, and let themselves be swept away by the forces of evil....
_See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise._ CIRCUMSPECT BEHAVIOUR I. The duty--“Walk circumspectly,” _i.e., _diligently, carefully. The phrase imports such a caution and exactn...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:1 New Life in Love. Paul gives general instructions for holy living. Purity of life comes from avoiding evil deeds and relationships and adopting holy practices....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 5:15. SEE THEN THAT YE WALK CIRCUMSPECTLY.—R.V. “Look then carefully how ye walk.” The way of life must be one of exactitude; and that it may be so the step...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 5:1 BE YE THEREFORE IMITATORS OF GOD, AS CHILDREN BELOVED. These words are closely connected with the preceding. In Ephesians 4:32 he had urged the example of God in one very mo...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Ephesians, chapter 5. Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children (Ephesians 5:1); Now, the therefore immediately points you back, back to the last verse of...
1 Corinthians 14:20; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Thessalonians 5:15; 1 Timothy 6:9;...
See that ye walk circumspectly [β λ ε π ε τ ε π ω ς α κ ρ ι β ω ς π ε ρ ι π α τ ε ι τ ε]. Lit., look how exactly ye walk. The best texts place twv how after ajkribwv exactly. So Rev., look carefully h...
FOLLOWERS OF GOD Ephesians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening verse of today's chapter has a clear and clarion call to the children of God. It is something that we may not sidetrack or push aside....
These words may be considered two ways; either, 1. As. direction to those, who according to the foregoing exhortation, do reprove sinners for their unfruitful works of darkness, namely to walk very ci...