Do not be discouraged. "I have given you good reasons why you should not be discouraged by my suffering for you. I have showed you God's secret which has been revealed in Jesus Christ, and I have showed you that God accepts you Gentiles directly, without first becoming Jews. My suffering really proves the truth of the Good News I have preached to you!"
EPHESIANS 3:13 u`mw/n (2) {A} The second instance of u`mw/n in ver. Ephesians 3:13, supported by early and weighty witnesses, is replaced in later manuscripts with...
Verse 13. _I DESIRE THAT YE FAINT NOT_] In those primitive times, when there was much persecution, people were in continual danger of falling away from the faith who were not well grounded in it. Thi...
WHEREFORE I DESIRE THAT YE FAINT NOT - The connection here is this. Paul was then a prisoner at Rome. He had been made such in consequence of his efforts to diffuse the Christian religion among the Ge...
3. THE MYSTERY MADE KNOWN Chapter S 2:11-3:21 _ 1. The condition of the Gentiles (Ephesians 2:11)_ 2. But now in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:13) 3. The new and great relationship (Ephesians 2
A DIGRESSION. PAUL THE PRISONER AND HIS RELATION TO THE MYSTERY. A knowledge of Paul's story may be presumed among those who read this letter: they will have heard how he was entrusted with the missio...
PRISON AND PRIVILEGES (Ephesians 3:1-13) To understand the connection of thought in this passage it has to be noted that Ephesians 3:2-13 are one long parenthesis. The for this cause of Ephesians 3:1...
It is to me, who am less than the least of all God's consecrated people. that this privilege has been given the privilege of preaching to the Gentiles the wealth of Christ, the full story of which no...
DESIRE. beg. App-134. FAINT NOT. not (Greek. _me)_ to be cast down. AT. Greek. _en_ App-104. The parenthesis ending with Ephesians 3:13, the teaching is continued from Ephesians 3:1, "For this cause...
_Wherefore_ In view of the facts just recited; the welcome of Gentile believers into the true Israel, the Body of Christ, "according to the purpose of the ages," for the instruction of holy angels, an...
ΔΙῸ. Such being the occasion and the effect of my sufferings. ΑἸΤΟΥ͂ΜΑΙ. Elsewhere in St Paul only Ephesians 3:20; Colossians 1:9; in each case of a request from God. But the context is on the whole i...
Ephesians 2:15. ΚΑΤΑΡΓΉΣΑΣ אAB &c. καταρτίσας D*. Ephesians 2:21. ΠΑ͂ΣΑ ΟἸΚΟΔΟΜῊ א*BDG _al_ Clem Orig Chrys. πᾶσα ἡ οἰκ. א*ACP _al mult_. Ephesians 3:5. Τ. ἉΓΊΟΙΣ�. ΠΡΟΦΉΤΑΙΣ אAC &c.
ΔΙΌ (G1352) следовательно, ΑΙΤΟΎΜΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΑΊΤΈΩ (G154) просить, молить, ΈΓΚΑΚΕΪ́Ν _praes. act. inf. от_ ΈΓΚΑΚΈΩ (G1573) уступать злу, быть трусом, терять храбрость, уставать,...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 3:1-19) E. Paul's prayer for our strengthening. Ephesians 3:1-19. 1. Beginning of prayer. Ephesians 3:1. 2. Parenthetical Paul's mini
(3:13) Knowing that he has suffered on their behalf, Paul says, in effect, "get a grip on it", you are caused to "glory" (shine) by means of his "sufferings". There are circumstances in which a believ...
Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. WHEREFORE - since our spiritual privileges are such (), 'I entreat you not to be dispirited' [ engkakein (G1457...
__ Summary of the Present Grace 2 The present secret administration of which there is no hint in any Scriptures before this epistle was penned, consists essentially of three separate items, all of w...
REASONS FOR RENEWING THE PRAYER FOR WISDOM 1-13. A digression, which, however, could not be spared. As in Ephesians 1:15, he begins to speak of himself, and this time he explains his unique interest i...
THAT YE FAINT NOT] It might mean 'that I may not faint.' But St. Paul is not afraid of losing heart; he rejoiced in tribulations (Romans 5:8), and took pleasure in weaknesses (2 Corinthians 12:10). He...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 3 3:1-13 ~ GOD HAS MADE HIS SECRET KNOWN 3:1-6 ~ GOD MADE HIS SECRET KNOWN TO PAUL V1 For this reason...
WHEREFORE I DESIRE... — The verse is parenthetical — a reflection suggested by the greatness of the trust and the littleness of the minister dwelt upon in Ephesians 3:8, and inserted as a warning to t...
Ephesians 3:1 contain two subjects closely blended together. The first (carrying on what is implied in the contrast drawn out in Ephesians 2) is the absolute newness of this dispensation to the Gentil...
CHAPTER 13 EARTH TEACHING HEAVEN Ephesians 3:10 "The mystery hidden since the ages began, in God who created all things": so the last paragraph concluded. The added phrase "through Jesus Christ" is...
διὸ αἰτοῦμαι μὴ ἐγκακεῖν ἐν ταῖς θλίψεσί μου ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν : _wherefore I ask that ye lose not heart in my tribulations in your behalf_. The διό is referred by some (Mey., etc.) to the immediately precedi...
These verses make a paragraph by themselves. Their main subject is the call of the Gentiles and Paul's Apostolic vocation in relation thereto. He reminds his readers of the mystery of that call, its r...
GENTILES SHARE THE “UNSPEAKABLE RICHES” Ephesians 3:1 _ Dispensation_ should be rendered, “stewardship.” We are God's trustees for men. To each of us is given some special phase of truth which we mus...
God's dwelling in the Church is not finality. It is equipment for the fulfillment of the divine purpose. The apostle claims a stewardship in the mystery of the Church, and declares the astounding fact...
Thoughts On the Apostle's Bondage Paul was willing to suffer the hardships of Roman imprisonment if the gospel could be furthered by his chains. (1 Peter 1:12-14.) He did not want the Ephesian brethre...
_Wherefore, I beseech you, be not discouraged nor disheartened at my tribulations and persecutions on the account of the gospel, nor at your own, which ought to be a subject both for you and me to glo...
(13) Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. (14) В¶ For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, (15) Of whom the whole family...
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...
Equality in Christ I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week, in Chapter 2 of Ephesians we took a look at the Lord's "Never Ending Grace." 1. And although the Apostle Paul was speaking specifically to Gentiles,...
13._Wherefore I desire. _His reason for alluding formerly to his imprisonment is now manifest. It was to prevent them from being discouraged when they heard of his persecution. (134) O heroic breast,...
The whole of Chapter 3 is a parenthesis unfolding the mystery; and presenting at the same time, in the prayer that concludes it, the second character of God set before us at the beginning of the epist...
WHEREFORE I DESIRE THAT YE FAINT NOT AT MY TRIBULATIONS FOR YOU,.... The apostle was a man attended with many tribulations, and great afflictions, which he did not suffer as an evildoer, either from G...
Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. Ver. 13. _Wherefore I desire_] αιτουμαι, _mendico._ Or, I beg of God, as one would do an alms, Acts 3:2, humbly,...
_Wherefore_ Since by my ministry you have been called to the fellowship of the gospel; _I desire that ye faint not_ Be not discouraged or disheartened; _at my tribulations for_ preaching the gospel to...
MY TRIBULATIONS; on account of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, for which he was then a prisoner at Rome. YOUR GLORY; the means of promoting your glory; that is, promotive of your heavenly glory...
The humility of the apostle and the greatness of his mission:...
WHEREFORE I DESIRE THAT YE FAINT NOT AT MY TRIBULATIONS FOR YOU, WHICH IS YOUR GLORY. The apostle here takes up once more the thought of v. 2, joining it in a very skillful manner with the preceding v...
THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST REVEALED (vs.1-13) "For this cause" -- because of the marvelous greatness of the work God had accomplished for and in His saints -- Paul preached "the unsearchable riches of Chr...
CHAPTER 3 Paul describes himself as: The ____________ of Jesus Christ For the ____________. We are living in the _________________ of the grace of God. A dispensation is a period of _______ given...
“WHEREFORE. ASK THAT YE MAY NOT FAINT AT MY TRIBULATIONS FOR YOU, WHICH ARE YOUR GLORY” “Wherefore”: In view of all the blessings available to Christians, including the Christians in Ephesus. “I ASK”:...
13-19 The apostle seems to be more anxious lest the believers should be discouraged and faint upon his tribulations, than for what he himself had to bear. He asks for spiritual blessings, which are t...
WHEREFORE I DESIRE; I pray you. This is an exhortation to the Ephesians, not a prayer to God, for that follows, EPHESIANS 3:14. THAT YE FAINT NOT AT MY TRIBULATIONS FOR YOU; the truth I have preached...
Ephesians 3:13 Therefore G1352 ask G154 (G5731) not G3361 heart G1573 (G5721) at G1722 my G3450 tribulations...
‘Wherefore I ask that you may not faint at my tribulations for you, which are your glory.' Some of his readers were clearly very constrained at what Paul was enduring. They were dispirited and concern...
1. _Paul's Office as Apostle to the Gentiles._ In view of the great privilege detailed in chap. Ephesians 2:19-22, culminating in Ephesians 2:22, the Apostle begins to speak of his prayer on behalf of...
Ephesians 3:13. WHEREFORE. In view of my position as the minister of such a gospel, thus leading back to Ephesians 3:1, the thought of which is resumed in Ephesians 3:14. This is preferable to referri...
THAT YE FAINT NOT (μη ενκακειν). Object infinitive with μη after αιτουμα. The infinitive (present active) ενκακειν is a late and rare word (see already Luke 18:1; 2 Thessalonians 3:13; 2 Corinthians...
Ephesians 3:1. The Grace Given to Paul. The enthusiasm with which the Apostle speaks of preaching the Gospel to the heathen is contagious. His words burn on the page, and our hearts take fire as we r...
CONTENTS: Church, a mystery hidden in past ages. Prayer for inner fullness and knowledge. CHARACTERS: Christ, God, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The divine purpose to make of both Jew and Gentile a...
Ephesians 3:1. _Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ._ He was indeed the prisoner of Caesar, but a greater than Cæsar had said to him in the castle at Jerusalem, “Be of good cheer, Paul, for as thou has...
_In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of Him._ ACCESS TO GOD THROUGH CHRIST I. We have access. Approach to God in worship. Such a state of peace with God as allows a free...
_Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory._ EXHORTATION TO STEADFASTNESS 1. We are prone, when ministers of the gospel are troubled, to forsake them and t...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 3:1 Revelation of the Gospel Mystery. Paul explains his calling and ministry as an apostle to the Gentiles. This assured his Gentile readers that their inheritance in Chris...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 3:10. TO THE INTENT THAT NOW … MIGHT BE KNOWN BY THE CHURCH THE MANIFOLD WISDOM OF GOD.—The Church as it expands from a “little flock” to a “multitude which...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 3:1 DIGRESSION ON THE ADMISSION OF THE GENTILES TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD....
Let's turn to the third chapter of Ephesians. For this cause [Paul said] I, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles (Ephesians 3:1), It is interesting that Paul was actually a prisoner of Rome,...
1 Thessalonians 3:2; 2 Corinthians 1:6; 2 Thessalonians 3:13; Acts 14:22;...
Faint [ε γ κ α κ ε ι ν]. Lit., lose heart. Kakov in classical Greek, but not in the New Testament, sometimes means cowardly....
The not fainting is your glory....