Ephesians 1:17

ISV

Ephesians 1:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah! He has blessed us in the Messiah with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm,

Jesus told her, "Don't hold on to me, because I haven't yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, "I'm ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

The father

To you, LORD, belongs the greatness, and the valor, and the splendor, and the endurance, and the majesty because all that is in heaven and on earth is yours. To you belongs the kingdom, LORD, and you are exalted as head over all.

Lift up your heads, gates! Be lifted up, ancient doors, so the King of Glory may come in.

The voice of the LORD was heard above the waters; the God of glory thundered; the LORD was heard over many waters.

Has a nation ever changed gods when they aren't even gods? But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.

And never bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.'

"Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth to people who enjoy his favor!"

Stephen replied: "Listen, brothers and fathers!

None of the rulers of this world understood it, because if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

My brothers, do not let your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be tainted by favoritism.

saying, "Amen! Praise, glory, wisdom, thanks, honor, power, and strength be to our God forever and ever! Amen!"

The spirit

so Pharaoh asked his servants, "Can we find anyone else like this someone in whom the Spirit of God lives?

The Spirit of the LORD will rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and power, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.

There's a man in your kingdom in whom dwells the spirit of the holy gods. During your grandfather's reign, he was found to have insight, intelligence, and wisdom, like that of the gods. Your grandfather, King Nebuchadnezzar your kingly predecessor appointed him to be chief administrator over the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and astrologers,

because at that time the Holy Spirit will teach you what you are to say."

because I will give you the ability to speak, along with wisdom, that none of your opponents will be able to resist or refute.

He is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. But you recognize him, because he lives with you and will be in you.

But they could neither refute the wisdom nor withstand the Spirit by which he kept speaking.

To one has been given a message of wisdom by the Spirit; to another the ability to speak with knowledge according to the same Spirit;

Indeed, brothers, if I come to you speaking in foreign languages, what good will I be to you unless I speak to you in some revelation, knowledge, prophecy, or teaching?

For this reason, since the day we heard about this, we have not stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of God's will with respect to all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

In him are stored all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

However, the wisdom that comes from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, and without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.

In the knowledge

you will be able to understand, along with all the saints, what is wide, long, high, and deep

then you will understand the fear of the LORD and learn to know God.

Rather, let the one who boasts, boast in this: that he understands and knows me, for I am the LORD who acts with gracious love, justice, and righteousness in the land. I delight in these things," declares the LORD.

I'll give them the ability to know me, for I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God when they return to me with all their heart.

No longer will a person teach his neighbor or his relative: "Know the LORD.' Instead, they'll all know me, from the least to the greatest of them," declares the LORD. "Indeed, I'll forgive their iniquity, and I'll remember their sin no more."

All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one fully knows the Son except the Father, and no one fully knows the Father except the Son and the person to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

Jesus answered, "If I were trying to glorify myself, my glory would mean nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, "He is our God.'

They'll do this because they haven't known the Father or me.

And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent Jesus the Messiah.

Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done.

so that you might live in a manner worthy of the Lord and be fully pleasing to him as you bear fruit while doing all kinds of good things and growing in the full knowledge of God.

Because they are united in love, I pray that their hearts may be encouraged by all the riches that come from a complete understanding of the full knowledge of the Messiah, who is the mystery of God.

and gentle when refuting opponents. After all, maybe God will allow them to repent and to come to a full knowledge of the truth,

From: Paul, a servant of God, and also an apostle of Jesus the Messiah, to bring the faith to those chosen by God, along with full knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the full knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence.

Instead, continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah. Glory belongs to him both now and on that eternal day! Amen.

This is how we can be sure that we have come to know him: if we continually keep his commandments.

General references

The ear that hears and the eye that sees the LORD surely made them both.

"How blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear!