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that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
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God's Showcase of Grace
Commentators agree that your salvation has a purpose beyond your personal benefit. God intends for your life, transformed by His grace, to be an eternal exhibition. For all of history and eternity, before both people and angels, your story will serve as a public demonstration of the 'exceeding riches of his grace' and kindness.
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Ephesians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
That in the ages to come. In all future times. The sense is that the riches of Divine grace and the Divine kindness would be shown in the …
That he might shew (ινα ενδειξητα). Final clause with ινα and first aorist middle subjunctive of ενδεικνυμ. See 1:7 for "riches of…
19th Century
Anglican
In the ages to come.—Properly, the ages which are coming on—the ages both of time and of eternity, regarded as one great …
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Baptist
That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
Brothers, …
All this was done by God in Christ with a single end in view: to demonstrate in successive ages “the incomparable riches of his grace” (cf. 1:7, 18…
16th Century
Protestant
That in the ages to come. The final and true cause — the glory of God — is again mentioned, so that the Ephesians, by making it the subjec…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
That in the ages to come This is the end of God's permitting sin, in which men are morally dead; and of his sufferin…
Sin is the death of the soul. A man dead in trespasses and sins has no desire for spiritual pleasures. When we look upon a corpse, it evokes an awf…
