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Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Peace, Love, and Faith
Commentators explain that Paul's blessing links three core Christian virtues. Peace is not just an absence of conflict but a holistic well-being from God. This peace is intertwined with a faith that actively works through love for fellow believers. As one scholar puts it, peace with God leads to faith in Him, which then overflows into love for one another.
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Ephesians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Peace be to the brethren. The epistle is closed with the usual salutations. The expression, "peace to you," was the common form o…
Love and faith (αγαπη μετα πιστεως). Love of the brotherhood accompanied by faith in Christ and as an expression of it.
19th Century
Anglican
Peace be to the brethren...—In the conclusion of the Epistle, as at the beginning, St. Paul gives the double benediction,…
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Baptist
I am sure that we can heartily repeat that benediction: May the Lord send much of His grace to all His people, in every part of the earth, who love…
Ephesians finishes with a truly apostolic benediction, but one different in form from others in Paul’s writings. Couched in the third person, not i…
16th Century
Protestant
Peace be to the brethren. I consider the word peace, as in the salutations of the Epistles, to mean prosperity. Yet if t…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Peace [be] to the brethren The members of the church at Ephesus, who stood in a spiritual relation to each other; me…
The gospel was a mystery until it was made known by divine revelation, and it is the work of Christ's ministers to declare it. The best and most em…
