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

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.

Jesus replied, "Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

The father

O Lord, you are great, mighty, majestic, magnificent, glorious, and sovereign over all the sky and earth! You have dominion and exalt yourself as the ruler of all.

Look up, you gates! Rise up, you eternal doors! Then the majestic king will enter!

The Lord's shout is heard over the water; the majestic God thunders, the Lord appears over the surging water.

Has a nation ever changed its gods (even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!

And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among people with whom he is pleased!"

So he replied, "Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

My brothers and sisters, do not show prejudice if you possess faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.

saying, "Amen! Praise and glory, and wisdom and thanksgiving, and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!"

The spirit

So Pharaoh asked his officials, "Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?"

The Lord's spirit will rest on him -- a spirit that gives extraordinary wisdom, a spirit that provides the ability to execute plans, a spirit that produces absolute loyalty to the Lord.

There is a man in your kingdom who has within him a spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, he proved to have insight, discernment, and wisdom like that of the gods. King Nebuchadnezzar your father appointed him chief of the magicians, astrologers, wise men, and diviners.

for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you must say."

For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

Yet they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, and another the message of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

Now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I help you unless I speak to you with a revelation or with knowledge or prophecy or teaching?

For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and not hypocritical.

In the knowledge

you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

then you will understand how to fear the Lord, and you will discover knowledge about God.

If people want to boast, they should boast about this: They should boast that they understand and know me. They should boast that they know and understand that I, the Lord, act out of faithfulness, fairness, and justice in the earth and that I desire people to do these things," says the Lord.

I will give them the desire to acknowledge that I am the Lord. I will be their God and they will be my people. For they will wholeheartedly return to me.'

"People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me," says the Lord. "For I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done."

All things have been handed over 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 decides to reveal him.

Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, 'He is our God.'

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects -- bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,

My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ,

correcting opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance and then knowledge of the truth

From Paul, a slave of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, to further the faith of God's chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth that is in keeping with godliness,

I can pray this because his divine power has bestowed on us everything necessary for life and godliness through the rich knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.

Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

General references

The ear that hears and the eye that sees -- the Lord has made them both.

"But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear.