Ephesians 4:32 ESV

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 4:1-32

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 of the unity of the Spirit. The fact of that unity is then declared. 'There is one body, and one Spirit"; the function of the instrument so described is revealed in the words, "one hope of your calling." He then showed how the unity is created: "one Lord," the Object of faith; "one faith,"... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Ephesians 4:1-32

The Higher Christian Life Ephesians 4:1-32 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 accustomed to think of prisoners as men who are versed in crime. Paul, however, was a prisoner of the Lord. He was in prison, not because of his guilt, but because of his righteousness, and, withal his faithfulness to Christ. From the prison jail, Bunyan wrote as one sent of God. Behind the prison... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 4:31-32

‘Let all bitterness and wrath, and anger and clamour, and railing, be put away from you with all malice, and you be kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.’ Paul now sums up this section by including further things to be avoided, the signs of the old man. ‘the man that they were’, and by directing them to reveal the new man, ‘the man that they now are’. The signs of the old man are bitterness (pikria - bitterness, animosity, harshness,... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 4:25-32

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 scope ( Ephesians 4:27). Do not grieve the Spirit ( Ephesians 4:30). Be kind, tender-hearted, forgiving— remembering the Divine forgiveness ( Ephesians 4:32). Be imitators of your heavenly Father and walk in love, remembering the love of Christ and His oblation of Himself for us. Ephesians... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:32

And be ye kind; sweet, amiable, facile in words and conversation, Luke 6:35. Tender-hearted; merciful, quickly moved to compassion: so we have bowels of mercies, Colossians 3:12. Forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you; be placable, and ready to forgive, therein resembling God, who for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you more than you can forgive to one another. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ephesians 4:25-32

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESEphesians 4:25. Putting away lying.—Findlay holds to it that “the lie, the falsehood, is objective and concrete; not lying, or falsehood, as a subjective act, habit, or quality.” Members one of another.—Let there be “no schism in the body.”Ephesians 4:26. Let not the sun go down on your wrath.—The word for “wrath” is not the usual one. It almost seems as if the compound form had reference to the matter “alongside which” wrath was evoked. If “curfew” could ring out... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:31-32

Ephesians 4:31-32 Love the Foe and Conqueror of Selfishness. Christianity denies the assumption, and challenges it all along the line, that pursuit of the higher life need be, in any sense or degree, necessarily selfish. It may be selfish, but it is just as possible that it is wholly otherwise. And more, in all its most energetic and effectual types it is sure to be unselfish, for selfishness is never, as a practical fact, able to kindle into life the more fervent and daring forms of... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Ephesians 4:32

DISCOURSE: 2113FORGIVENESS OF SINSEphesians 4:32. God, for Christ’s sake, hath forgiven you.IF a minister of Christ is bound to preach the Gospel with all plainness and fidelity, he is no less bound to guard it against abuse, and to inculcate on the professors of it the strictest conformity to the commands of God. St. Paul was careful to insist upon even the minutest parts of practical piety; and to shew, that the Gospel not only required, but had a direct tendency to produce, holiness, both in... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Ephesians 4:32

Forgiveness Made Easy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Sermon (No. 1448) Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." Ephesians 4:32 . THE HEATHEN moralists, when they wished to teach virtue, could not point to the example of their gods, for, according to their... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:1-32

Now Paul begins the fourth chapter again with the reminder that he is aprisoner of the Lord, and I beseech you, [I beg you, I implore you] that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called ( Ephesians 4:1 ).Now, notice this is the first mention now that Paul makes of your response to God. He has spent three chapters telling you what God has done for you, of what God has given to you, of what God has provided for you. He has spent three chapters unfolding the glorious mysteries of... read more