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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Ephesians 4 The apostle having in the three former chapters treated of the doctrines of grace, and explained and established them, proceeds in the three following to exhort to the duties of religion; and in this advises to a becoming conversation in general, and to brotherly concord and unity in particular; and dehorts from several vices, and encourages to the contrary virtues....
John Gill
And be ye kind one to another,.... Good, affable, courteous; which appears in looks, words, and actions; by looking pleasantly on each other, speaking kindly to one another, and mutually doing every good office that lies in their way, and in their power: tender hearted: which is opposed to a being hard hearted to them that are in distress, and close at hand to the needy; to cruelty and severity...
Matthew Henry
We have gone through the former part of this epistle, which consists of several important doctrinal truths, contained in the three preceding chapters. We enter now on the latter part of it, in which we have the most weighty and serious exhortations that can be given. We may observe that in this, as in most others of Paul's epistles, the former part is doctrinal, and fitted to inform the minds of...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. This exposition consisted of readings from Ephesians 4. and Eph_6:1-15.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, “Kind” is a good old Saxon word; it means kinned. Be ye kind, like men who are akin to one another; look on all men as your brothers.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Tenderhearted, forgiving one another, You will have something that will need to be forgiven, and your brother will have something which you will need to forgive. Eph_4:32. Even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. The Lord write all these words upon our hearts, for Christ’s sake! Amen.
Charles H. Spurgeon
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even is God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. That is, very freely, very often, very abundantly, very thoroughly, very heartily: “even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you,” so also do ye.