Ephesians 1:13-15
1599 Geneva Bible
13 [a]In whom also ye have trusted, after that ye heard the [b]word of truth, even the Gospel of your salvation, wherein also after that ye believed, ye were [c]sealed with the holy [d]Spirit of promise,
14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance, for the [e]redemption of that liberty purchased unto the praise of his glory.
15 [f]Therefore also after that I heard of the faith, which ye have in the Lord Jesus, and love toward all the Saints,
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- Ephesians 1:13 Now he maketh the Ephesians (or rather all the Gentiles) equal to the Jews, because that notwithstanding they came last, yet being called by the same Gospel, they embraced it by faith, and were sealed up with the same spirit, which is the pledge of election, until the inheritance itself be seen, that in them also also the glory of God might shine forth, and be manifested.
- Ephesians 1:13 That word which is truth indeed, because it cometh from God.
- Ephesians 1:13 This is a borrowed kind of speech taken of a seal, which being put to anything, maketh a difference between those things that are authentical, and others that are not.
- Ephesians 1:13 With that Spirit, which bringeth not the Law, but the promise of free adoption.
- Ephesians 1:14 Full and perfect.
- Ephesians 1:15 He returneth to the former gratulation, concluding two things together of those things that went before: the first is, that all good things come to us from God the Father in Christ, and by Christ, that for them he may be praised of us. The second is that all those things (which he bringeth to two heads, to wit, faith and charity) are increased in us by certain degrees, so that we must desire increase of his grace from whom we have the beginning, and of whom we hope for the end.
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