Ephesians 5:16 BSB — MannaFest

Ephesians 5:16

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

BSB

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ASV

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

KJV

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Ephesians 5:16 (420)

Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, has risen. Rise up from the sleep of the age. Walk cautiously and prudently. Cast off folly. Take hold of wisdom. In this way you will be able to avoid changing yourself constantly as you walk through the vicissitudes of the times. Rather you will find a unity within yourself even amid the diversity of the times.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

With all possible care redeeming the time - Saving all you can for the best purposes; buying every possible moment out of the hands of sin and Satan; out of the hands of sloth, ease, pleasure, worldly business; the more diligently, because the present are evil days, days of the grossest ignorance, immorality, and profaneness.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Redeeming the time - Εξαγοραζομενοι τον καιρον· Buying up those moments which others seem to throw away; steadily improving every present moment, that ye may, in some measure, regain the time ye have lost. Let time be your chief commodity; deal in that alone; buy it all up, and use every portion of it yourselves. Time is that on which eternity depends; in time ye are to get a preparation for the kingdom of God; if you get not this in time, your ruin is inevitable; therefore, buy up the time.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἐξαγοραζόμενοι	exagorazomenoi	redeeming	G1805 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
καιρόν,	kairon	time,	G2540 →
ὅτι	hoti	because	G3754 →
αἱ	hai	the	G3588 →
ἡμέραι	hēmerai	days	G2250 →
πονηραί	ponērai	evil	G4190 →
εἰσιν.	eisin	are.	G1510 →

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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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
Ephesians 6:13
Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you will be able to stand your ground, and having done everything, to stand.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 10:4
  The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
- Luke 21:36
  So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
- Ephesians 6:11–17
  Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.
Through
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
leads to
- Lamentations 3:27
  It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.
- Ecclesiastes 11:8
  So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.
- Psalms 71:17–18
  O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
- Proverbs 22:6
  Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Through
Colossians 4:5
Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time.
leads to
- Ephesians 5:15–17
  Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

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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