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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ephesians 5:17

(17) Be ye not unwise.—The word here is stronger than in Ephesians 5:15; it is properly senseless, used of “the fool” (in Luke 11:40; Luke 12:20; 1 Corinthians 15:36; 2 Corinthians 11:16; 2 Corinthians 11:19; 2 Corinthians 12:6; 2 Corinthians 12:11). By it St. Paul emphasises his previous warning; then he adds the explanation that to be “wise” is to “understand what the will of the Lord is”—to know His purpose towards us and towards the world, and so to know the true purpose of our life. Hence... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ephesians 5:18

(18) Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess.—From the general idea of reckless levity, St. Paul passes on to the special sin of drunkenness, as not (like gluttony) primarily a gratification of the appetite, but as a reckless pursuit of excitement at all costs—glorified as an excitement of emotion, and even of wit and intellect, in such contemporary writers as Horace, and actually confused, as in the Dionysiac or Bacchanalian frenzy, with a divine inspiration. How necessary the admonition was... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ephesians 5:19

(19) Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.—The same words are found in Colossians 3:16, with a notable difference of application. There the idea is of teaching: “teaching and admonishing one another;” here, simply of a natural vent for emotion, especially of thanksgiving, although probably here also “to yourselves” means “to one another,” and refers, perhaps, chiefly to public worship. The well-known passage in Pliny, “Carmen dicere inter se invicem,” describes... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ephesians 5:20

(20) Giving thanks always for all things.—This temper of universal and pervading thankfulness is dwelt upon in the First Epistle to the Thessalonians (1 Thessalonians 5:18) as indissolubly united with unceasing joy and prayer (“Rejoice evermore; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks.”) Since thanksgiving is for what God has given us, and prayer for what we still need, both must be united in our imperfect condition here. In Colossians 3:17 it is associated with action “in the name of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ephesians 5:1-33

The Lessons of Childliness Ephesians 5:1 It is the great mark of the Gospel that its deepest truths are presented to us in forms taken from our daily life. The cleansing water and the simple meal are made sacraments revelations of Divine mysteries. The ties of family are the chosen emblems of our heavenly fellowship. One of these relations is set before us in the words which I have taken for my text. We all are as children in His household, heirs, indeed of a glorious inheritance, but yet... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ephesians 5:1-6

32Chapter 22DOCTRINE AND ETHICSEphesians 4:25-32; Ephesians 5:1-6The homily that we have briefly reviewed in the last chapter demands further consideration. It affords a striking and instructive example of St. Paul’s method as a teacher of morals, and makes an important contribution to evangelical ethics. The common vices are here prohibited on specifically Christian grounds. The new nature formed in Christ casts them off as alien and dead things; they are the sloughed skin of the old life, the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ephesians 5:7-14

Chapter 23THE CHILDREN OF THE LIGHTEphesians 5:7-14The contrast between the Christian and heathen way of life is now, finally, to be set forth under St. Paul’s familiar figure of the light and the darkness. He bids his Gentile readers not to be "jointpartakers with them"-with the sons of disobedience upon whom God’s wrath is coming (Ephesians 5:6) -for he has hailed them already, in Ephesians 3:6, as "joint-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel." "Once" indeed they shared... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ephesians 5:15-21

Chapter 24THE NEW WINE OF THE SPIRITEphesians 5:15-21Very solemnly did the moral homily to the Asian Christians begin in Ephesians 4:17 : "This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles walk." So much has now been said and testified in the intervening paragraphs, by way both of dehortation and exhortation. Here the apostle pauses; and casting his eye over the whole pathway of life he has marked out in this discourse, he bids his readers: "Look then... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Ephesians 5:1-21

3. The Walk in Holiness and Righteousness CHAPTERS 4:17-5:21 1. Not as the Gentiles walk (Ephesians 4:17-19 ) 2. The putting off and putting on (Ephesians 4:20-32 ) 3. Followers of God (Ephesians 5:1-2 ) 4. Exhortations (Ephesians 5:3-21 ) At this point the exhortations to walk in separation begin. The “therefore” of Ephesians 4:17 refers us to the “wherefore” of Ephesians 2:11-12 . What Gentiles are in their natural condition is here once more put before us. The grace of God takes the... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Ephesians 5:3

5:3 {1} But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;(1) Now he comes to another type of affections, which is in that part of the mind which men call covetous or desirous: and he reprehends fornication, covetousness, and jesting very sharply. read more

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ephesians 5:17

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ephesians 5:18

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ephesians 5:19

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ephesians 5:20

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ephesians 5:1-33

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ephesians 5:1-6

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ephesians 5:7-14

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ephesians 5:15-21

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Ephesians 5:1-21

Geneva Study Bible - Ephesians 5:3

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