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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; Having got so much, you might get a great deal more.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; Is that the way that we pray? Do we make mention of people in our prayers? It is well to do so. It is a good plan to keep a list of persons for whom we ought to pray, and to put it...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Cease not to give thanks for you,.... On account of their faith and love; which were gifts of grace bestowed upon them, and not the produce of their own free will and power; and therefore thanks are given to God for them: making mention of you in my prayers; which shows the apostle to be a praying person, and that he was constant at the throne of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,.... In what sense God the Father is the God of Christ, [See comments on Ephesians 1:3] The Father of glory; or the glorious Father; who is glorious in himself, in the perfections of his nature, and in the works of his hands; and as a father, he is a glorious father to Christ, and is a father to him, as he is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. That is a wonderful passage; we are not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, You see he gave thanks to God for their faith and for their love. But there are three divine sisters that must...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened,.... By the Spirit of God already, to see the exceeding sinfulness of sin; the insufficiency of their own righteousness; the beauty, glory, fulness, and suitableness of Christ, as a Saviour; the excellency, truth, and usefulness of the doctrines of the Gospel; in which their understandings were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; You have eyes; God’s grace has given them to you; but they are capable of additional power and force; and there is the telescope of faith, which you are allowed to use, which will enable you to see much more than you have ever seen as yet. Eph_1:18. That ye may know what is the hope of his calling,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to he working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe,.... The objects of the divine power here intended, are believers in Christ; which distinguishes this power from that which was put forth in creation, and from that which will be displayed in the resurrection of the dead, and from the power of divine wrath, which will appear...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe, It takes a great deal of grace to make a believer, and to keep a believer; nothing but the almighty power of God can do it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
According to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,- Not only raising him from the dead, but lifting him up to his own right hand, and setting him there, “in the heavenly places,”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly palace, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead,.... There are many articles of faith contained in this passage; as that Christ died, that he is raised from the dead, that he was raised from the dead by God the Father, and that his resurrection was by the power of God: the resurrection of any person is an instance of great power, but...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Far above all principality and power,.... Good angels and bad angels, and civil magistrates, who also may be intended by the following words: and might and dominion; good angels may be so called, because of their employment under God in the affairs of Providence, and the government of this world; and Christ is not only above them, as he is God,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: The power of God, which works in a believer, is the same power with which he raised Christ from the dead, and set him in this preeminent place.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And hath put all things under his feet,.... These words are taken out of Ps 8:6. [See comments on 1 Corinthians 15:27]. And gave him to be the head over all things to the church; the Vulgate Latin version reads, "and gave him to be the head over every church", or "all the church"; the Ethiopic version, "the whole church"; which intends not barely...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, This power is also to be seen working in you who believe in Jesus. What wonders of grace we shall be when God has exerted that stupendous and amazing energy, in each one of us, even as in his own Son! What an inheritance Christ will have in us then!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all. May God bless to us the reading of that chapter. This exposition consisted of readings from 1 Corinthians 13; Ephesians 1.