以弗所書 5:1 RCUVTS

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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 5:1

Be ye therefore followers of God - Greek, “Be imitators - μιμηταὶ mimētai - of God.” The idea is not that they were to be the friends of God, or numbered among his followers, but that they were to imitate him in the particular thing under consideration. The word “therefore” - οὖν oun - connects this with the previous chapter, where he had been exhorting them to kindness, and to a spirit of forgiveness, and he here entreats them to imitate God, who was always kind and ready to forgive;... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ephesians 5:1-2

Ephesians 5:1-2. 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, children Whom he hath not only forgiven after many and great offences, but hath taken into his peculiar favour, adopted into his family, constituted his heirs, and joint heirs with his beloved Son, and inspired with blessed and lively hopes of unspeakable glory and felicity for ever.... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ephesians 5:1-20

More about the new standards (5:1-20)Just as children follow the example of their parents, so Christians must follow the example of their heavenly Father. Their love, then, will not be mere words, but will show itself by self-sacrifice, just as Christ’s love did (5:1-2).Converted pagans had a special problem in that many of the sinful practices they once engaged in were still widespread in the society in which they lived. One way to overcome the temptation to such practices was not even to... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 5:1

followers = imitators. Greek. mimetes. See 1 Corinthians 4:16 . God . App-98 . dear = beloved. App-135 . children . App-108 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ephesians 5:1

EPH. 5"Walk" as a metaphor of general behavior is used in this chapter to admonish Christians to: (1) walk in love (Ephesians 5:1-2); (2) walk in the light (Ephesians 5:3-14); and (3) walk in wisdom (Ephesians 5:15-21). In Ephesians 5:22, Paul began instructions relative to three classes of reciprocal obligations: (1) those between husbands and wives (Ephesians 5:22-33); (2) those between children and parents (Ephesians 5:6:1-4); and (3) those between servants and masters (Ephesians 5:5-9).... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 5:1

Ephesians 5:1. Be ye therefore, &c.— "Since therefore God is so exceedingly good and merciful in the exercise of his pardoning grace toward you (ch. Ephesians 4:32.), let this excite you to be (μιμηται ) imitators of him, in exercising all kindness and forgiveness one towards another, as becomes children of his own likeness, begotten and adopted by him, beloved of him, and loving him, and delighting to resemble him, especially in those amiable graces, and to approve yourselves to him who is... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 5:1

1. therefore—seeing that "God in Christ forgave you" ( :-). followers—Greek, "imitators" of God, in respect to "love" ( :-): God's essential character ( :-). as dear children—Greek, "as children beloved"; to which :- refers, "As Christ also loved us" ( :-). "We are sons of men, when we do ill; sons of God, when we do well" [AUGUSTINE, on Psalm 52]; (compare Matthew 5:44; Matthew 5:45; Matthew 5:48). Sonship infers an absolute necessity of imitation, it being vain to assume the title of son... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ephesians 5:1

"Therefore" does not introduce a conclusion to what has preceded, but it gives a reason for what follows. It is only normal and natural for children to imitate their parents. So too should the children of God imitate their heavenly Father (cf. Matthew 5:48; Luke 6:36). We are to imitate God’s gracious attitude and generous actions toward us. read more