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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 4:1-16

Exhortation to Oneness (4:1-16). Paul calls on them therefore now to be as one, and walk worthily of their calling. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 4:1-6

Ephesians 4:1-Joshua : . God’ s Calling Involves a Unity of Life.— The writer, appealing to his imprisonment, beseeches his readers to “ walk” in a fashion worthy of their calling, i.e. in humility, gentleness, and forbearance, putting up with one another in love. They must be careful to observe steadfastly the oneness of the Spirit (who is at work in them, and who holds them together) in a common bond of peace. The Spirit is one even as the “ Body” is one, even as their calling involves... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:1

The prisoner of the Lord; in the Lord, a Hebraism: it is as much as, for the Lord: see Ephesians 3:1. Beseech you that ye walk worthy; proceed constantly and perseveringly in such ways as suit with and become your calling, 1 Thessalonians 4:7; 1 Peter 1:15; see the like expression, Romans 16:2. Of the vocation wherewith ye are called; both your general calling, whereby ye are called to be saints, and your particular callings, to which ye are severally called, as Ephesians 5:1-33 and Ephesians... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ephesians 4:1-3

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESEphesians 4:1. Walk worthy of the vocation.—They had been called to life in the Spirit, and they must also “walk in the Spirit.”Ephesians 4:2. With all lowliness.—The Christian—“born from above”—is to exhibit a trait of character which the “high-born” Greek despised, and which Heine in modern times called “a hound’s virtue.” “The pride that apes humility” steals in under Chrysostom’s description of this “lowliness.” He says, “It is a making of ourselves small when... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Ephesians 4:1-3

DISCOURSE: 2106A CONSISTENT WALK ENJOINEDEphesians 4:1-3. I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in lore; endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.THE end of all true religion is practice: and the perfection of practice is a habit of mind suited to the relations which we bear to God and man, and to the circumstances in... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:1-32

Now Paul begins the fourth chapter again with the reminder that he is aprisoner of the Lord, and I beseech you, [I beg you, I implore you] that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called ( Ephesians 4:1 ).Now, notice this is the first mention now that Paul makes of your response to God. He has spent three chapters telling you what God has done for you, of what God has given to you, of what God has provided for you. He has spent three chapters unfolding the glorious mysteries of... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ephesians 4:1-32

Ephesians 4:1-2 . I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you a pathetic argument, for if I hear of discords among you it will add affliction to my bonds; that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called. We are called with a holy calling, according to his purpose and grace. 2 Timothy 1:9. We are called to come out from among the wicked, and to regard the earth only as the land of our pilgrimage. 2 Corinthians 6:17. We are called with a high and holy calling as the sons... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ephesians 4:1

Ephesians 4:1I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called.Calling and conductI. The behaviour of Christians should correspond with their vocation.1. From a sense of gratitude.2. The Divine sentiment from which the vocation sprang should possess them.II. Certain virtues specially become the Christian vocation.1. Because of what they are in themselves.2. Because of the great end they promote--“the unity of the Spirit in the bond... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 4:1

1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, Ver. 1. Worthy of the vocation ] There is a το πρεπον , a seemliness appertaining to each calling; so here. We must walk nobly and comfortably, as becometh the heirs of God and coheirs of Christ. Scipio, when a harlot was offered him, answered, Vellem, si non essem Imperator; I would if I were not general of the army. Antigonus being invited to a place where a notable harlot was... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ephesians 4:1

prisoner: Ephesians 3:1 of the Lord: or, in the Lord beseech: Jeremiah 38:20, Romans 12:1, 1 Corinthians 4:16, 2 Corinthians 5:20, 2 Corinthians 6:1, 2 Corinthians 10:1, Galatians 4:12, Philemon 1:9, Philemon 1:10, 1 Peter 2:11, 2 John 1:5 walk: Ephesians 4:17, Ephesians 5:2, Genesis 5:24, Genesis 17:1, Acts 9:31, Philippians 1:27, Philippians 3:17, Philippians 3:18, Colossians 1:10, Colossians 4:12, 1 Thessalonians 2:12, 1 Thessalonians 4:1, 1 Thessalonians 4:2, Titus 2:10, Hebrews 13:21 ... read more