Combined Bible Commentary
Ephesians 5:6
(5:6) The admonition of v.4 is continued here in "empty words".obscenity, foolish talk, coarse joking = empty words
(5:6) The admonition of v.4 is continued here in "empty words".obscenity, foolish talk, coarse joking = empty words
Verse Ephesians 5:6. _LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU_] Suffer no man to persuade you that any of these things are innocent, or that they are unavoidable frailties of human nature; they are all _sins_ and _ab...
LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU - Let no one by artful pleas persuade you that; there will be no danger from practicing these vices, We may suppose that they would be under strong temptations to mingle in the...
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...
You must become imitators of God, as well loved children imitate their father. You must live in love, as Christ loved you, and gave himself to God as a sacrifice and an offering, a sacrifice which was...
THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
NO MAN. Greek. _medeis._ DECEIVE. Greek. _apatao._ Occurs only here; 1 Timothy 2:14.James 1:26. VAIN. hollow. See Colossians 2:8. First occurance:...
_Let no_man _deceive you_ See for similar warnings Romans 16:18; 1Co 3:18; 2 Corinthians 11:3; Col 2:8; 2 Thessalonians 2:3; Jame
6. In these matters the Christian standard involved a complete reversal of the popular standard. ‘Covetousness’ in the shape of a desire for large possessions was nowhere regarded as in itself a relig...
17–5:14. THE GREAT CONTRAST Ephesians 4:25 to Ephesians 5:14. THE CONTRAST IN DETAIL...
ΆΠΑΤΆΤΩ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΆΠΑΤΆΩ (G538) сбивать с толку, уводить в пути, обманывать. Imper. в отр. приказе указывает на прекращение развивающегося действия, или за запрет длительного действия....
DISCOURSE: 2115 FATAL CONSEQUENCES OF INDULGED SIN Ephesians 5:5. _This ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of C...
LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU, &C.— "Let no man then, in this respect, amuse and deceive you with vain words and sophistical arguments, by which it is well known that many, and especially some who call thems...
_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
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. VAIN - unreal words; namely, palliations of "uncleanness" (Ephesians 5...
__ 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...
5:6 disobedience. (a-24) _ Apeitheia_ . see ch. 2.2 and Note q, Romans 10:21 ....
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...
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...
(3_b_) Ephesians 5:3 warn, with even greater fulness and emphasis, against the sins of impurity and lust, as incompatible with membership of the kingdom of heaven, as works of darkness, impossible to...
LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU WITH VAIN WORDS. — It seems likely that St. Paul has in view, not mere worldly condonation of evil or low heathen morality, but some anticipation of that Antinomian form of Gnos...
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...
μηδεὶς ὑμᾶς ἀπατάτω κενοῖς λόγοις : _let no one deceive you with vain words_. A solemn warning, made the more pointed by being given without any connecting particle. κενός is “vain” in the sense of _e...
A paragraph ruled by the general idea of the imitation of God in the forgiving love which has been appealed to in the preceding verse. In the light of that Divine example Paul charges his readers to f...
WALK AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT Ephesians 5:1 It is indeed a high calling to imitate God and to walk in love after the measure of Christ; but it will be impossible unless we open our innermost heart to the...
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....
Things Love Will Not Let One Do Those whose lives are directed by love will not indulge in any uncontrolled lusts, whether sexual or monetary in nature. Paul says even talking about such thoughts tend...
The apostle here puts them in mind of the general judgment, when the angel of God will, on account of their crimes of avarice, fornication, &c. fall on the children of unbelief; by which are meant the...
(1) В¶ 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 savo...
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...
6._Let no man deceive you. _There have always been ungodly dogs, (156) by whom the threatenings of the prophets were made the subject of merriment and ridicule. We find such characters in our own day....
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...
LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU WITH VAIN WORDS,.... With vain philosophy, vain babblings, with foolish and filthy talking; suggesting that these were not sinful the apostle had condemned; or that they were sm...
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Ver. 6. _Let no man deceive you_] So as to make you think there is no su...
_For this ye know_ Of this ye cannot be ignorant, favoured as you have been with the light of the gospel, _that no whoremonger, &c., hath any inheritance_ Here or hereafter; _in the kingdom of Christ...
LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU; by inducing you to think such persons as are mentioned, verse Ephesians 5:5, can go to heaven....
LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU WITH VAIN WORDS; FOR BECAUSE OF THESE THINGS COMETH THE WRATH OF GOD UPON THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE....
The children of light avoid the works of darkness:...
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...
DISOBEDIENCE: Or, unbelief...
“LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU WITH EMPTY WORDS: FOR BECAUSE OF THESE THINGS COMETH THE WRATH OF GOD UPON THE SONS OF DISOBEDIENCE” “Let”: One has the choice to prevent this from happening, which infers that...
3-14 Filthy lusts must be rooted out. These sins must be dreaded and detested. Here are not only cautions against gross acts of sin, but against what some may make light of. But these things are so f...
VAIN WORDS; false and deceitful, which cannot secure to you the impunity they promise you, bearing you in hand, either that those things are not sins, or not so dangerous. THE WRATH OF GOD; viz. in th...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And again does the apostle say, "Let no man deceive you with vain words; for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of mistrust. Be not ye the...
Ephesians 5:6 Let G538 one G3367 deceive G538 (G5720) you G5209 empty G2756 words G3056 for G1063 because...
_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...
Ephesians 5:6. LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU WITH EMPTY WORDS; words that do not contain truth; the special reference being to palliations of the vices just named. Heathen unbelievers would be most likely to...
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...
WITH EMPTY WORDS (κενοις λογοις). Instrumental case. Probably Paul has in mind the same Gnostic praters as in Colossians 2:4. See Ephesians 2:2....
Ephesians 5:6 Light-hearted Wickedness. I. Trifling with sin is open disobedience to God. No one can say that the directions of our heavenly Father are not very plain on this subject. There is no dis...
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...
DO NOT LET. "Do not let a legislator, a philosopher, a teacher, or a preacher deceive you with foolish words and convince you that these things we say to prohibit immorality, indecency, greed, and evi...
_Let no man deceive you with vain words; for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience._ A CAUTION AND A COMMINATION I. A caution against error. 1. That we ma...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:6 DECEIVE YOU... BECAUSE OF THESE THINGS. Only a false teacher would claim that Christians can lead unrepentant, sinful lives (see 2 Timothy 3:1
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 5:3. LET IT NOT BE ONCE NAMED.—After the things themselves are dead let their names never be heard. Ephesians 5:4. NOR JESTING.—“Chastened insolence,” as Ar...
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 John 4:1; 1 Peter 2:8; 2 Kings 18:20; 2 Thessalonians 2:10;...
Vain. Plausible, but devoid of truth, and employed to palliate heathen vices....
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....
Because of these things — As innocent as the heathens esteem them, and as those dealers in vain words would persuade you to think them....