Ephesians 1:15 BSB — MannaFest

Ephesians 1:15

For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

BSB

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ASV

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which ye show toward all the saints,

KJV

Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Wherefore, I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus - This is one of the passages usually relied on by those who suppose that this Epistle was not written to the Ephesians. The argument is, that he writes to them as if they were strangers to him, and that it is not language such as would be used in addressing a people among whom he had spent three years; see the introduction, section 5. But this inference is not conclusive. Paul had been some years absent from Ephesus when this Epistle was written.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Faith in Christ, and love to the saints, will be attended with all other graces. Love to the saints, as such, and because they are such, must include love to God. Those who love saints, as such, love all saints, how weak in grace, how mean in the world, how fretful and peevish soever, some of them may be.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

So in the case of Philemon, his "beloved fellow laborer" (Phm 1), he uses the same words (Phm 4, 5). your faith--rather, as Greek, "the faith among you," that is, which many (not all) of you have. love unto all the saints--of whatever name, simply because they are saints. A distinguishing characteristic of true Christianity (Eph 6:24).

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Διὰ	Dia	Because of	G1223 →
τοῦτο	touto	this	G3778 →
κἀγὼ	kagō	I myself also	G1473 →G2532 →
ἀκούσας	akousas	having heard of	G191 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
καθ᾽	kath᾽	among	G2596 →
ὑμᾶς	humas	you	G4771 →
πίστιν	pistin	faith	G4102 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
κυρίῳ	kuriō	Lord	G2962 →
Ἰησοῦ	Iēsou	Jesus	G2424 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
ἀγάπην	agapēn	love	G26 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
εἰς	eis	toward	G1519 →
πάντας	pantas	all	G3956 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
ἁγίους	hagious	saints	G40 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.
leads to
- Hebrews 13:16
  And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
- Matthew 10:42
  And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”
- Galatians 6:10
  Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:3
  and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Acts 10:4
  Cornelius stared at him in fear and asked, “What is it, Lord?” The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have ascended as a memorial offering before God.
Through
1 John 4:21
And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.
leads to
- Matthew 22:37–39
  Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
- Leviticus 19:18
  Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
- 1 John 3:11
  This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Ephesians

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Ephesians