Ephesians 4:22-24 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ephesians 4:17-32

The apostle having gone through his exhortation to mutual love, unity, and concord, in the Eph. 2:16; there follows in these an exhortation to Christian purity and holiness of heart and life, and that both more general (Eph. 4:17-24) and in several particular instances, Eph. 4:25-32. This is solemnly introduced: ?This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord; that is, seeing the matter is as above described, seeing you are members of Christ's body and partakers of such gifts, this I urge upon... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Ephesians 4:1-32

With this chapter the second part of the letter begins. In Ephesians 1:1-23 ; Ephesians 2:1-22 ; Ephesians 3:1-21 Paul has dealt with the great and eternal truths of the Christian faith, and with the function of the Church in the plan of God. Now he begins to sketch what each member of the Church must be if the Church is to carry out her part in that plan. Before we begin this chapter, let us again remind ourselves that the central thought of the letter is that Jesus has brought to a... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Ephesians 4:17-24

4:17-24 I say this and I solemnly lay it upon you in the Lord--you must no longer live the kind of life the Gentiles live, for their minds are concerned with empty things; their understandings are darkened; they are strangers from the life God gives, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the petrifying of their hearts. They have come to a stage when they are past feeling, and in their shameless wantonness they have abandoned themselves to every kind of unclean conduct in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:22

That ye put off concerning the former conversation, the old man ,.... Which is the corruption of nature; why this is called a man, and an old man; see Gill on Romans 6:6 , the putting him off, is not a removing him from the saints, nor a destroying him in them, nor a changing his nature; for he remains, and remains alive, and is the same old man he ever was, in regenerate persons; but it is a putting him off from his seat, and a putting him down from his government; a showing no regard to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:23

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Or by the Spirit that is in your mind; that is, by the Holy Spirit; who is in the saints, and is the author of renovation in them; and who is the reviver and carrier on, and finisher of that work, and therefore that is called the renewing of the Holy Spirit, Titus 3:5 or rather the mind of man, which is a spirit, of a spiritual nature, immaterial and immortal, and is the seat of that renewing work of the Spirit of God; which shows, that the more... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:24

And that ye put on the new man ,.... Which some understand of Jesus Christ, who is truly and really man, and a new or extraordinary one, Jeremiah 31:22 and as such is God's creature, and is made after his image, and which appears in his perfect holiness and righteousness; and the phrase of putting on well agrees with him, Romans 13:14 whose righteousness is a garment, pure and spotless, and which is put on by the hand of faith: though rather by the "new man" is meant, the new nature, the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 4:22

That ye put off - And this has been one especial part of our teaching, that ye should abandon all these, and live a life totally opposite to what it was before. The old man - See the note on Romans 6:6 , and especially see the notes on Romans 13:13 , Romans 13:14 ; (note). Which is corrupt - The whole of your former life was corrupt and abominable; ye lived in the pursuit of pleasure and happiness; ye sought this in the gratification of the lusts of the flesh; and were ever... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 4:23

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind - Their old mode of living was to be abandoned; a new one to be assumed. The mind is to be renovated; and not only its general complexion, but the very spirit of it; all its faculties and powers must be thoroughly, completely, and universally renewed. Plautus uses a similar expression describing deep distress, and answerable to our phrase innermost soul: - Paupertas, pavor territat mentem animi . Poverty and dread alarm my innermost soul. ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 4:24

Put on the new man - Get a new nature; for in Christ Jesus - under the Christian dispensation, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, hut a new creation. Therefore ye must be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Which after God is created in righteousness - Here is certainly an allusion to the creation of man. Moses tells us, Genesis 1:27 , that God created man in his own image; that is, God was the model according to which he was formed in the spirit of his mind.... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 4:22

Verse 22 22.That ye put off. He demands from a Christian man repentance, or a new life, which he makes to consist of self-denial and the regeneration of the Holy Spirit. Beginning with the first, he enjoins us to lay aside, or put off the old man, employing the metaphor of garments, which we have already had occasion to explain. The old man, — as we have repeatedly stated, in expounding the sixth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, and other passages where it occurs, — means the natural... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ephesians 4:17-32

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Ephesians 4:1-32

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Ephesians 4:17-24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 4:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 4:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 4:24

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 4:22

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