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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
But unto everyone of us is given grace,.... Which may refer to the saints in common, and may be interpreted of justifying, pardoning, adopting, sanctifying, and persevering grace, bestowed upon them all, freely and liberally, not grudgingly, nor niggardly, and without motive and condition in them; or to the ministers of the Gospel, and so design gifts fitting for the ministry, which every one...
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
But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ It does not mean that God gives stingingly, but that he gives according to our capacity to receive. We are not all made with the same measure of capacity, because we are not all intended to do the same office; and God gives everyone of us as much grace as we are prepared to receive. The Lord enlarge our hearts...
Charles H. Spurgeon
But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. That is, to every one of us who are members of his mystical body. The living members of the living body receive according to each one’s function and place in the body a measure of grace for the benefit of the whole.
Charles H. Spurgeon
But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. We have not all the same form of grace, and we cannot all perform the same service for the Saviour; we differ very much from each other as to our abilities, and as to the positions which we can occupy; and our Lord intended it to be so.