William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Ephesians 5:1-8
5:1-8 You must become imitators of God, as well loved children imitate their father. You must live in love, as Christ loved you, and gave himself to God as a sacrifice and an offering, a sacrifice which was the odour of a sweet savour to God. Let no one even mention fornication and unclean living and insatiable desire among you--it does not befit God's consecrated people to talk about things like that. Let no one even mention shameful conduct. Let there be no foolish talking and graceless... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ephesians 5:1-2
Here we have the exhortation to mutual love, or to Christian charity. The apostle had been insisting on this in the former chapter, and particularly in the Eph. 4:17-32 of it, to which the particle therefore refers, and connects what he had said there with what is contained in these verses, thus: ?Because God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven you, therefore be you followers of God, or imitators of him;? for so the word signifies. Pious persons should imitate the God whom they worship, as far as... read more