以弗所书 5:5-6 CUNPSS

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:1-14

What to imitate and to avoid. I. THE IMITATION OF GOD AND CHRIST . 1. The imitation of God . "Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children." The force of example is abundantly acknowledged. How much do most of us suffer from the low standard of opinion and practice with which we are surrounded? On the other hand, we have all felt what it is to come into Contact with one who is raised above the common standard. By his strength of principle and generous... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:1-16

The love and the wrath of God enforcing morality. Paul is still working for the unity of the Church and calling for that watchful and pure walk on the part of the Ephesians which can alone promote it. He consequently brings to bear upon them the allied motives of the love and the wrath of God. And here we may remark, in passing, that the moralities which have tried to work themselves without the aid of Divine sanctions have proved practically powerless. No "independent morality" has as yet... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:3-5

Warnings against impurity of all kinds. The sins here described were common among the heathen, and received no adequate check from their moral guides. Indeed, the old pagan world regarded them as things indifferent. They are, for the most part, sins against ourselves, as the sins condemned in the previous verses are sins against our neighbors. They are to be condemned on many grounds. I. THEY ARE EXPRESS VIOLATIONS OF THE DIVINE LAW . ( Exodus 20:14 .) II. THEY ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:3-5

Warning against covetousness. It is singular to find covetousness, which is often the sin of respectability, linked with sins of gross impurity. In reality it springs from selfishness, like these other sins. It has its origin in the same unholy root. I. CONSIDER THE NATURE OF COVETOUSNESS . It is the inordinate love of riches, manifesting itself in several ways. 1. In the eager anxiety to attain wealth , without respect either to God's glory or our own spiritual good.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:3-7

Covetousness amongst the worst of human crimes. "But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:3-21

THE WALK SUITABLE TO THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:5

For this ye know well ; an appeal to their own consciences, made confidently, as beyond all doubt. That no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom. Covetousness, the twin-brother sin of uncleanness, is denounced as idolatry. It is worshipping the creature more than the Creator, depending on vast stores of earthly substance in place of the favor and blessing of God. It must receive the doom of the idolater; instead of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:6

Let no man deceive you with empty words. No man, whether pagan or nominal Christian: the pagan defending a life of pleasure as the only thing to be had with even a smack of good in it; the Christian mitigating pleasant sins, saying that the young must have an outlet for their warm feelings, that men in business must put all their soul into it, and that life must be brightened by a little mirth and jollity. As opposed to what the apostle has laid down ( Ephesians 5:5 ), such words are... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:6

Divine wrath upon disobedience. It was necessary for the apostle to mark the true nature and real end of impurity in all its manifestations. "Let no man deceive you with vain words." I. IT IS NO UNUSUAL EXPERIENCE FOR WICKED MEN NOT TO SEE THE WICKEDNESS OF THEIR ACTS . The heathen regarded moral purity as a thing indifferent, and many of their moral guides palliated some of the worst features of pagan sensuality. They argued, as some have argued in... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 5:5

For this ye know - Be assured of this. The object here is to deter from indulgence in those vices by the solemn assurance that no one who committed them could possibly be saved.Nor unclean person - No one of corrupt and licentious life can be saved; see Revelation 22:15.Nor covetous man, who is an idolater - That is, he bestows on money the affections due to God; see Colossians 3:5. To worship money is as real idolatry as to worship a block of stone. If this be so, what an idolatrous world is... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:1-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:1-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:3-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:3-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:3-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:3-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 5:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 5:5

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