Ephesians 1:17

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Ephesians 1:17

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Summary

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

The god

Ephesians 1:3

John 20:17

The father

The spirit

In the knowledge

General references

Proverbs 20:12

Matthew 13:16

Bible References

The god

Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens.

“Don’t cling to Me,” Jesus told her, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and tell them that I am ascending to My Father and your Father—to My God and your God.”

The father

Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in the heavens and on earth belongs to You. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.

Lift up your heads, you gates!
Rise up, ancient doors!
Then the King of glory will come in.

The voice of the Lord is above the waters.
The God of glory thunders—
the Lord, above vast waters,

Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?
(But they were not gods!)
Yet My people have exchanged their Glory
for useless idols.

And do not bring us into temptation,

but deliver us from the evil one.

[For Yours is the kingdom and the power
and the glory forever. Amen.]

Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and peace on earth to people He favors!

“Brothers and fathers,” he said, “listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom, for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

My brothers, do not show favoritism as you hold on to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.

saying:

Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom
and thanksgiving and honor
and power and strength
be to our God forever and ever. Amen.

The spirit

Then Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find anyone like this, a man who has God’s spirit in him?”

The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him—
a Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
a Spirit of counsel and strength,
a Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.

There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the days of your predecessor he was found to have insight, intelligence, and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods. Your predecessor, King Nebuchadnezzar, appointed him chief of the diviners, mediums, Chaldeans, and astrologers. Your own predecessor, the king,

For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what must be said.”

for I will give you such words

and a wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.

He is the Spirit of truth. The world is unable to receive Him because it doesn’t see Him or know Him. But you do know Him, because He remains with you and will be in you.

But they were unable to stand up against his wisdom and the Spirit by whom he was speaking.

to one is given a message of wisdom
through the Spirit,
to another, a message of knowledge
by the same Spirit,

But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in other languages, how will I benefit you unless I speak to you with a revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?

For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Him.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without favoritism and hypocrisy.

In the knowledge

may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love,

then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and discover the knowledge of God.

But the one who boasts should boast in this,
that he understands and knows Me—
that I am Yahweh, showing faithful love,
justice, and righteousness on the earth,
for I delight in these things.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am Yahweh. They will be My people, and I will be their God because they will return to Me with all their heart.

No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least to the greatest of them”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “For I will forgive their wrongdoing and never again remember their sin.”

All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal Him.

“If I glorify Myself,” Jesus answered, “My glory is nothing. My Father—you say about Him, ‘He is our God’—He is the One who glorifies Me.

They will do these things because they haven’t known the Father or Me.

This is eternal life:
that they may know You, the only true God,
and the One You have sent—Jesus Christ.

And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.

so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God.

I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery—Christ.

instructing his opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance leading them to the knowledge of the truth.

Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to build up the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,

His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity.

Amen.

This is how we are sure that we have come to know Him: by keeping His commands.

General references

The hearing ear and the seeing eye—
the Lord made them both.

“But your eyes are blessed because they do see, and your ears because they do hear!