Love your wives (agapate ta gunaika). Present active imperative, keep on loving. That is precisely the point. Be not bitter (mh pikrainesqe). Present...
Colossians 5:19 Husbands, love your wives (See Gill on Ephesians 5:25). and be not bitter against them; turning love into hatred of their persons; ru...
Overview - Colossians 3 1?He shows where we should seek Christ. 5?He exhorts to mortification; 10?to put off the old man, and put on Christ; 12?exhor...
Overview - Ephesians 3 1?The hidden mystery that the Gentiles should be saved was made known to Paul by revelation; 8?and to him was that grace given...
Which (hti). Which in fact is, explanatory use of hti rather than h. The fulness of him that filleth all in all (to plhrwma tou ta panta en pasin plh...
Overview - Ephesians 1 1?After the salutation, 3?and thanksgiving for the Ephesians, 4?he treats of our election, 6?and adoption by grace; 11?which...
Ye are made full (este peplhrwmenoi). Periphrastic perfect passive indicative of plhrow, but only one predicate, not two. Christ is our fulness of wh...
Even as Christ also loved the church (kaqw kai o Cristo hgaphsen thn ekklhsian). This is the wonderful new point not in Colossians 3:19 that lifts ...
Mysteries OF REDEMPTION Deuteronomy 29:29 ; Job 15:8 ; Psalms 25:14 ; Proverbs 3:32 ; Amos 3:7 ; Matthew 11:25 ; Matthew 13:11 Matthew 13:35 ...
Overview - Colossians 3 1?He shows where we should seek Christ. 5?He exhorts to mortification; 10?to put off the old man, and put on Christ; 12?exhor...
Overview - 1?Corinthians 13 1?All gifts, 3?how excellent soever, are nothing worth without charity. 4?The praises thereof, 13?and prelation before h...
Overview - Colossians 2 1?Paul still exhorts them to be constant in Christ; 8?to beware of philosophy, and vain traditions; 18?worshipping of angels;...
Overview - Romans 14 1?Men may not contemn nor condemn one another for things indifferent; 13?but take heed that they give no offence in them; 15?whic...
For (oti). Correct text (Aleph B C D L) and not kai (and) of the Textus Receptus. Explanatory reason for verse 14 . Of his fulness (ek tou plhrwmat...
Overview - Romans 13 1?Subjection, and many other duties, we owe to the magistrates. 8?Love is the fulfilling of the law. 11?Gluttony and drunkenness...
Overview - Ephesians 5 1?After general exhortations to love; 3?to flee fornication; 4?and all uncleanness; 7?not to converse with the wicked; 15?to...
Overview - Habakkuk 3 1?Habakkuk, in his prayer, trembles at God's majesty. 17?The confidence of his faith. Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeHabakkuk 3:...
Blota stain or reproach ( Job 31:7 ; Proverbs 9:7 ). To blot out sin is to forgive it ( Psalms 51:1 Psalms 51:9 ; Isaiah 44:22 ; Acts 3:19 ). Chri...
Overview - Proverbs 8 1?The fame, 6?and evidence of wisdom. 10?The excellency, 12?the nature, 15?the power, 18?the riches, 22?and the eternity of wis...
Overview - 2?Timothy 4 1?He exhorts him to do his duty with all care and diligence; 6?certifies him of the nearness of his death; 9?wills him to com...