Completely new. "You made a promise to God in your baptism (1 Peter 3:21), and you must change your whole way of thinking, with God's help (Romans 12:1-2)." Becoming holy = taking being put right with God seriously!!!
Verse 23. _AND BE RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND_] Their _old_ _mode_ of living was to be abandoned; a _new_ one to be assumed. The _mind_ is to be renovated; and not only its _general_ complexion...
AND BE RENEWED - That is, it is necessary that a man who has been following these should become a new man; see the notes on John 3:3 ff., compare the notes on 2 Corinthians 4:16. The word used here -...
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 OLD MAN AND THE NEW. Those who are now members of the true Israel are no longer to walk as Gentiles, _i.e._ in the vanity of mind, the darkness, the alienation from the Divine life which springs f...
I say this and I solemnly lay it upon you in the Lord--you must no longer live the kind of life the Gentiles live, for their minds are concerned with empty things; their understandings are darkened; t...
Ephesians 4:1-32 INTRODUCTION (Ephesians 4:1-10) With this chapter the second part of the letter begins. In Ephesians 1:1-23;...
RENEWED. Greek. _ananeoo._ Only here. Occurs frequently in Apocrypha. Implies that the whole course of life now flows in. different direction. See 2 Corinthians 4:16; 2 Corinthians 5:17. SPIRIT. App-...
_be renewed_ A present infinitive in the Gr. The idea is thus of progress and growth, the antithesis to the "corrupting" just above. The decisive fact of new position in and connexion with Christ was...
Practical Results: a spiritual revolution of principle and practice. The Old Man and the New 17. _testify_ A word of solemn appeal occurring elsewhere in N. T. only Acts 22:26 (St Paul speaking) and...
17–5:14. THE GREAT CONTRAST...
THE CONTRAST IN PRINCIPLE ΜΑΡΤΎΡΟΜΑΙ. Of solemn protest. Acts 20:26 (at Ephesus), Acts 26:22; Galatians 5:3; 1 Thessalonians 2:12.
ἈΝΑΝΕΟΥ͂ΣΘΑΙ ΔῈ ΤΩ͂Ι ΠΝΕΎΜΑΤΙ ΤΟΥ͂ ΝΟῸΣ ὙΜΩ͂Ν, ‘be made young again in the spirit of your mind.’ Notice the present. The process of renewal is continuous. Notice also the characteristically Pauline th...
ΆΝΑΝΕΟΎΣΘΑΙ _praes. pass. inf. от_ ΆΝΑΝΕΌΩ (G365) делать новым, обновлять. _Praes._ подчеркивает постоянное обновление. Эпэкз. _inf._ или _inf._ в роли _imper._...
DISCOURSE: 2111 THE OLD MAN, AND THE NEW Ephesians 4:22. _That ye put off concerning the former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt, according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the sp...
AND BE RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MINDS;— "This saving knowledge of Christ excites and binds you, not only to mortify your corruptions, but also to abound in all grace and holiness, that you may pr...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 4:17-32; EPHESIANS 5:1-2) B. Walk as becometh saints. Ephesians 4:17-32;...
(4:23,24) On the other hand, we should be renewing our minds; putting "on the New Nature, (which is) created to be like God". Our New Nature has been created to be "like God" and render us suitable as...
And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; BE RENEWED, [ ananeousthai (G365) implies 'the continued renewal in the youth of the new man;' but anakainousthai, 'renewal from the old state'] IN THE...
__ Summary of Previous Grace 13 Before the revelation of the secret administration by means of this epistle the saints among the nations were in a period of adolescence. This is fully set forth by t...
UNITY OF THE NEW LIFE. RULES FOR THE NEW LIFE The Apostle passes, as usual, from doctrinal statements to practical exhortations; but doctrine is here and there introduced to support exhortation. 1-6...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 4 What Paul taught in Chapter s 1-3 was first about God and his Son Jesus Christ. Then it was about th...
[5. PRACTICAL EXHORTATION (Ephesians 4:17). (1) THE NEW LIFE; first, taught in Christ and learning Christ; and secondly, regenerate in Him to the image of God (Ephesians 4:17). (2) HENCE THE POWER...
(22-24) These verses explain the substance of the teaching of Ephesians 4:21. The original may be interpreted either of the teaching of a fact, “that ye did put off... and are being renewed,” &c., or...
AND BE RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND. — The word translated “renewed” is not the same as the word “new” below. It is properly “to be made young again,” and the process of recovery is described as...
CHAPTER 20 THE TWO HUMAN TYPES Ephesians 4:20 BUT as for you!-The apostle points us from heathendom to Christendom. From the men of blinded understanding and impure life he turns to the cleansed an...
A paragraph which takes up again the practical address begun with the first verse of the chapter, but interrupted at Ephesians 4:4, and contains solemn exhortations to withdraw from all conformity wit...
ἀνανεοῦσθαι δέ : _and that ye be renewed_. For ἀνανεοῦσθαι a few MSS. ([446] 2 17, 47, etc.) and some Versions (Syr., Copt., Vulg.) read ἀνανεοῦσθε, while δέ is omitted by [447]. In such connections δ...
PUTTING ON THE “NEW MAN” Ephesians 4:20 The Lord Jesus is our text-book and our teacher, the schoolhouse in which we are taught, and the object lesson in which all truth is enshrined. But all is in v...
The apostle at once proceeded to apply this great doctrine to the present life of the Church. From the heavenly calling he passed to the earthly conduct. The matter of first importance is maintenance...
The New Life of Those Taught By Christ Paul did not have any doubt about the teaching they had received. Instead, he is preparing to remind them of Christ's teachings and the life they should live af...
And be renewed in the (f) spirit of your mind; (f) Where there ought to have been the greatest force of reason, there is the greatest corruption of all, which gradually weakens all things....
(17) В¶ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, (18) Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the...
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...
One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play correc...
23._And be renewed. _The second part of the rule for a devout and holy life is to live, not in our own spirit, but in the Spirit of Christ. But what is meant by — _the spirit of your mind? _I understa...
The faithful were to seek in the dispositions mentioned above to maintain this unity of the Spirit by the bond of peace. There are three things in this exhortation: first, to walk worthy of their call...
AND BE RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND. Or by the Spirit that is in your mind; that is, by the Holy Spirit; who is in the saints, and is the author of renovation in them; and who is the reviver and...
And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; Ver. 23. _In the spirit of your mind_] That is, in the most inward and subtle parts of the soul, the bosom and bottom, the _vis vivifica, _ and very quintes...
_But ye_ Believers at Ephesus; _have not so learned Christ_ Or Christianity; that is, ye cannot act thus, now ye are acquainted with Christ and his gospel, which, you know, allows of no sin. _If so be...
AND BE RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND, which is His body, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all. A long and remarkable sentence, presenting the loftiest conception, both of Christ's own sup...
An admonition to spiritual renewal:...
Paul's exhortation and supplication for the Church as the body of Christ:...
RESPONSE IN PRACTICAL UNITY (vs.1-6) In this letter to the Ephesian saints, Paul first presented the basic truth so essential for individual saints (Ch.1:1- 2:10) and for the Church, the body of Chri...
CHAPTER 4 Even though Paul is a ______________, he still urges us to walk in our __________. This walk must be a ____________ one. What does it mean to walk worthy? Paul gives us some words to consi...
“AND THAT YE BE RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND” “Renewed”: To reform. “ The present passive infinitive suggests continual action. Literally the command requires that we ‘continue to be renewed' _...
17-24 The apostle charged the Ephesians in the name and by the authority of the Lord Jesus, that having professed the gospel, they should not be as the unconverted Gentiles, who walked in vain fancie...
AND BE RENEWED; viz. more and more, being already renewed in part. IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND; i.e. in your mind which is a spirit: see 1 THESSALONIANS 5:23 2 TIMOTHY 4:22. He means the superior power...
Ephesians 4:23 and G1161 renewed G365 (G5745) spirit G4151 your G5216 mind G3563 be -...
‘If so be that you heard him, and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, that you put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, which waxes corrupt after the lusts of deceit,...
Ephesians 4:23. AND BECOME RENEWED. ‘Be renewed' is more literal, but the present tense refers to a continued process, as ‘become' suggests. In Colossians 3:10, the word ‘renewed ‘is slightly differen...
Ephesians 4:22-24. These verses depend on the en-tire preceding thought. The substance of what you learned, of what you heard and were taught properly, ‘as is truth in Jesus,' was ‘that ye put off,' e...
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...
1. _Exhortations based on the Contrast between the Old and New Man._ The exhortation of Ephesians 4:1-3 is resumed, but with all the added force derived from the motives presented in Ephesians 4:4-16....
THAT YE BE RENEWED (ανανεουσθα). Present passive infinitive (epexegetical, like αποθεσθα, of αληθεια εν τω Ιησου) and to be compared with ανακαινουμενον in Colossians 3:10. It is an old verb, ανανε...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,-_ «You are called to be sons of God, you are called to be one with Chri...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one anot...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you-_ Paul puts force into the argument by his manner of speaking; you can hear in his words the rattle of his chains. Here is a man who...
CONTENTS: Walk and service of the believer in Christ. Ministry of gifts of Christ to His Body. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit, God, Paul. CONCLUSION: Considering to what state and condition God has...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you_ a pathetic argument, for if I hear of discords among you it will add affliction to my bonds; _that ye walk worthy of the vocation wh...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 4:23 RENEWED. The “renewal” or “transformation” of the mind (Romans 12:2) occurs as believers study and apply God’s Word and begin to think in n
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 4:17 Paul’s Testimony. Paul explains the new life in Christ that the Ephesians have experienced. ⇐...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 4:17. THAT YE HENCEFORTH WALK NOT AS OTHER GENTILES WALK.—In this and the two following verses we have again the lurid picture of Ephesians 2:2: “in the van...
EXPOSITION PRACTICAL PORTION OF THE EPISTLE. EPHESIANS 4:1 CHURCH PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH AND PROGRESS; THE CHURCH A BODY
Now Paul begins the fourth chapter again with the reminder that he is a prisoner of the Lord, and I beseech you, [I beg you, I implore you] that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are call...
1 Peter 1:13; Colossians 3:10; Ephesians 2:10; Ezekiel 11:19;...
In the spirit of your mind [τ ω π ν ε υ μ α τ ι τ ο υ ν ο ο ς υ μ ω ν]. The spirit is the human spirit, having its seat in and directing the mind. In the New Testament the Holy Spirit is never designa...
THE HIGHER CHRISTIAN LIFE Ephesians 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A prisoner of the Lord. One would hardly expect to find a prisoner in a Roman jail, the author of such a remarkable letter. We are accus...
The spirit of your mind — The very ground of your heart....