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For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,
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Faith and Love: The Core Duo
Commentators like Calvin and Gill explain that faith in Jesus and love for fellow believers are the inseparable marks of a genuine Christian life. Paul sees these two virtues as summarizing the whole of Christian character. True faith in Christ naturally overflows into active, tangible love for "all the saints."
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Ephesians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For this reason I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus (Ephesians 1:15). This is one of the passages usually re…
And which ye shew toward all the saints (κα την εις παντας τους αγιους). The words "ye show" do not occur in the Greek. The Textus…
19th Century
Anglican
After I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints.—These words have an almost exact parallel in…
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Baptist
Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love to all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mentio…
Paul’s thanksgiving for the spiritual progress of the Ephesian Christians arises out of what he has just written in vv.13–14. News had been brought…
16th Century
Protestant
Wherefore I also. This thanksgiving was not simply an expression of his ardent love to the Ephesians. He congratulated them before God tha…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Wherefore I also As well as others:
after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus ;…
God has stored up spiritual blessings for us in His Son, the Lord Jesus; but requires us to draw them out and obtain them by prayer. Even the best …
