Efesios 4:17-5:2 NVI

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 4:17-24

Contrasted principles of Gentile and Christian character. We now come more explicitly to the details of Christian duty. The apostle had presented a very high standard of Christian privilege in the preceding chapters, and now he presents an equally high standard of Christian duty . What God gives in the one form is to be given back in the other, and in corresponding proportion. The importance of the subject is indicated by the formula, "This I say, and testify in the Lord." The... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 4:17-24

Exhortation resumed. "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord." It is characteristic of the apostle to sink his own personality, and to put forward Christ. He wishes it to be understood that it is not in his own thought, but in the thought of him whom he calls Lord, that he makes his statement and gives his solemn asseveration regarding their duty. I. EXHORTATION DIRECTED AGAINST GENTILISM . "That ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk." They had formerly been... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 4:17-32

Raw material for Christian unity. It comes upon us with something like a surprise, the exhortations of the present passage after the glories which have gone before. But they are instructive in that they bring out the raw material out of which Paul hoped to manufacture Christian unity. It is evident that he despaired of none, even supposing they had been guilty of the gravest crimes and characterized by the deepest pollution. Does not his grand hope rebuke our faint-heartedness? I. ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 4:17

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord - I bear witness in the name of the Lord Jesus, or ministering by his authority. The object of this is, to exhort them to walk worthy of their high calling, and to adorn the doctrine of the Saviour. With this view, he reminds them of what they were before they were converted, and of the manner in which the pagan around them lived.That ye henceforth walk not - That you do not henceforth live - the Christian life being often in the Scriptures compared... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ephesians 4:17-19

Ephesians 4:17-19. This I say, therefore For your further instruction, how to walk worthy of your calling; (he returns to the subject which he began, Ephesians 4:1;) and testify in the Lord In the name and by the authority of the Lord Jesus, that ye, being now happily brought into the Christian Church, and made partakers of all the privileges and advantages belonging to its members; henceforth walk not as other Gentiles That ye live no longer as the unconverted heathen; in the vanity... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:17-32

The old and the new standards (4:17-32)Although believers have entered a new life through Christ, they still live in a society that does not know God and whose moral outlook is darkened by its ungodliness. The less Christian influence there is in the society, the lower the moral standards are. Christians, however, should not behave according to the commonly accepted practices of society. People without God, through repeatedly ignoring the warnings of conscience, can easily lose those feelings... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 4:17

testify. Greek. marturomai. See Acts 20:26 . henceforth . . . not = no longer. Greek. meketi. other . Omit. Gentiles = the Gentiles. They were Gentiles, but now are members of the church His body. Compare 1 Corinthians 10:32 . vanity . See Romans 8:20 . mind . Compare Romans 1:21 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ephesians 4:17

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind.Some old versions had inserted the word "other" before Gentiles; but as Bruce has accurately observed, "Christians constitute a third race on the earth, no longer Jews, no longer Gentiles. Even the also of the English Revised Version (1885) is misleading."[31] The meaning here is simple enough. "No longer live the old pagan life." read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:17

Ephesians 4:17. — From this verse to Eph 4:24 the Apostle exhorts the Ephesians wholly to forsake the former conversation, in which they had passed their lives, while they were Gentiles; and to take up that which became them, and was proper to them, now that they were Christians. The vanity of mind spoken of in this verse, appears from Romans 1:21. &c. to be, the apostatizing of the Gentiles from the true God to idolatry; and, in consequence thereof, to all that profligate way of living... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 4:17

17. therefore—resuming the exhortation which he had begun with, "I therefore beseech you that ye walk worthy," c. ( :-). testify in the Lord—in whom (as our element) we do all things pertaining to the ministry (1 Thessalonians 4:1 [ALFORD] Romans 9:1). henceforth . . . not—Greek, "no longer"; resumed from Romans 9:1- :. other—Greek, "the rest of the Gentiles." in the vanity, c.—as their element: opposed to "in the Lord." "Vanity of mind" is the waste of the rational powers on worthless objects,... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 4:17-24

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 4:17-24

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 4:17-32

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 4:17

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ephesians 4:17-19

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:17-32

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 4:17

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ephesians 4:17

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:17

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 4:17

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