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EPHESIANS 5:2 h`ma/j {B}
The external evidence supporting the two readings is rather evenly
balanced (h`ma/j î46 ac D G K Y 33 614 1739 itpt vg syrp, h goth arm
_al_; u`ma/j...
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Verse Ephesians 5:2. _AND WALK IN LOVE_] Let every act of life be
dictated by love to God and man.
_AS CHRIST - HATH LOVED US_] Laying down your lives for your brethren
if necessary; counting nothing...
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AND WALK IN LOVE - That is, let your lives be characterized by love;
let that be evinced in all your deportment and conversation; see notes
on John 13:34.
AS CHRIST ALSO HATH LOVED US - We are to evin...
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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
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EPHESIANS 4:25 TO EPHESIANS 5:2. PRECEPTS OF THE NEW LIFE. Away then
with lying, resentment, stealing, foul talk, bad temper, lust.
Remember the common membership (Ephesians 4:25). Give the devil no
s...
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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...
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THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
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LOVE. App-135.
CHRIST. App-98.
HATH LOVED. loved. App-135.
US. The texts read "you".
HATH GIVEN. gave up. Compare Romans 4:25.John 19:30.
SWEETSMELLING SAVOUR. an odour of. sweet smell.
SWEETSMEL...
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_walk_ On the metaphor, see above on Ephesians 2:2. It is just in the
_steps_of actual life that Divine grace is to shew itself, if it is
indeed present.
_as Christ also_ "_Also_," as an Exemplar addi...
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ΚΑΘῺΣ ΚΑῚ Ὁ ΧΡΙΣΤῸΣ ἨΓΆΠΗΣΕΝ ὙΜΑ͂Σ
ΚΑῚ ΠΑΡΈΔΩΚΕΝ ἙΑΥΤῸΝ ὙΠῈΡ ὙΜΩ͂Ν.
Familiarity ought not to dull our sense of wonder at this instinctive
re-enforcement of the appeal to the example of God by an appea...
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17–5:14. THE GREAT CONTRAST
Ephesians 4:25 to Ephesians 5:14. THE CONTRAST IN DETAIL...
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DISCOURSE: 2114
CHRIST’S LOVE A PATTERN FOR OURS
Ephesians 5:2. _Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath
given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a
sweet-smelling savo...
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AN OFFERING, &C.— Some think that the words προσφορα and
θυσια are used in reference to the _peace-offering_ and the
_sin-offering,_ as the truth of both is in the sacrifice of Christ,
which appeased...
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_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 4:17-32; EPHESIANS 5:1-2)
B.
Walk as becometh saints. Ephesians 4:17-32;...
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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.
AND - in proof that you are so.
WALK - resuming Ephes...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AS CHRIST ALSO HATH LOVED US. — To this idea of the “imitation of
God,” essential to all true religion, St. Paul now adds an
exhortation to follow the example of our Lord Jesus Christ, in that
especia...
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(3 _a_) In Ephesians 4:31 to Ephesians 5:2, he deals with malignity,
as utterly unworthy of the love of God manifested to us in Jesus
Christ....
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V.
(1, 2) These verses are an expansion and enforcement of the last verse
of Ephesians 4. There the forgiveness of “God in Christ” is set
forth in one pregnant phrase. Here the two parts of this idea...
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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...
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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...
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καὶ περιπατεῖτε ἐν ἀγάπῃ : _and walk in
love_. Here, again, καί _explains_ in _connecting_ and _adding_.
The “imitation” must take effect in the practical, unmistakable
form of a loving course of life...
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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...
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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....
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Walking In Love Like God
God extended his forgiveness to all men through the loving gift of his
Son on Calvary. Paul's reference in 4:32 to Christians forgiving as
God forgives led him to encourage t...
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(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...
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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...
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_THE HIGHEST DIGNITY OF MAN_
‘Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in
love, as Christ also hath loved us.’
Ephesians 5:1
We can follow God in love. In this ability our highe...
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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...
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2._And walk in love as Christ also hath loved us. _Having called on us
to imitate God, he now calls on us to imitate Christ, who is our true
model. We ought to embrace each other with that love with w...
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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...
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AND WALK IN LOVE,.... To God; to which the saints are obliged, not
only by the law of God, which requires it, but by the goodness of God,
and the discoveries of his love to them; and which shows itsel...
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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.
Ver. 2. _Hath loved us, and hath given_] When Christ wept...
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_Therefore_ Because you are forgiven by God, and have been so much
loved; (Ephesians 4:32;) _be ye followers_ Μιμηται, _imitators,
of God_ In loving and forgiving; _as dear_ Αγαπητα, _beloved,
childre...
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SWEET - SMELLING SAVOR; peculiarly pleasing and acceptable to God....
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A WARNING, PRINCIPALLY AGAINST THE SINS OF UNCLEANNESS.
The imitation of God excludes uncleanness:...
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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 SWEET- SMELLING SAVOR....
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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...
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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...
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“AND WALK IN LOVE, EVEN AS CHRIST ALSO LOVED YOU, AND GAVE HIMSELF
UP FOR US, AN OFFERING AND. SACRIFICE TO GOD FOR AN ODOR OF. SWEET
SMELL”
“And”: Imitating God must take the form of practical
demon...
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1,2 Because God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven you, therefore be ye
followers of God, imitators of God. Resemble him especially in his
love and pardoning goodness, as becomes those beloved by their...
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AND WALK IN LOVE; let your whole conversation be in love. AS CHRIST
ALSO HATH LOVED US, AND HATH GIVEN HIMSELF FOR US; viz. to die for us,
GALATIANS 2:20, as the greatest argument of his love, 1 Thess...
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Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians
For, on hearing that I came bound from Syria for the common name and
hope, trusting through your prayers to be permitted to fight with
beasts at Rome, that so by...
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Ephesians 5:2 And G2532 walk G4043 (G5720) in G1722 love G26 as G2531
Christ G5547 also G2532 loved...
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THE CHRISTIAN WALK IN LOVE, LIGHT AND WISDOM (5:1-21).
‘Therefore you be imitators of God as beloved children, and walk in
love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an
offering...
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Ephesians 5:2. AND WALK IN LOVE; since in this (chap. Ephesians 4:32)
they are to be imitators of God. ‘Love' is God's characteristic
(chap. Ephesians 1:4-5), and our aim (chap....
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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...
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_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...
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AN OFFERING AND A SACRIFICE TO GOD
(προσφοραν κα θυσιαν τω θεω). Accusative in
apposition with εαυτον (himself). Christ's death was an offering
to God "in our behalf" (υπερ ημων) not an offering to...
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Ephesians 5:2 , EPHESIANS 5:8
I. "Walk in love." Here we have a command founded upon a reason: "Walk
in love, as Christ hath loved us." Yes, of all forces love is the most
powerful as a force to act u...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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CONTROLLED BY LOVE. "The greatest _expression_ of God's love is his
act in Christ to set us free! Christ himself loved us and voluntarily
gave his life for us (John 10:17-18)_!_ Christ is our sin-offe...
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_And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given
Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God._
WALKING IN LOVE
I. I gather out of these words something calculated to touch the
h...
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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....
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
Ephesians 5:1. FOLLOWERS OF GOD.—R.V. _imitators_. St. Paul gathers
up all duties into one expression, “imitation of God,” and urges
them on his readers by a reminder...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 16:14; 1 Corinthians 5:7; 1 John 3:11; 1 John 3:12;...
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Walk in love. As imitators of God who is love.
Loved us [η μ α ς] The correct reading is uJmav you.
Gave [π α ρ ε δ ω κ ε ν]. To death Compare Romans 4:25, where
the same verb was delivered is follow...
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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....
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Here we have. second argument urged, to walk in love one with and one
towards another, drawn from the example of Christ; he also, as well as
God the Father, hath loved us; and the instance given of hi...