Ephesians 1:17

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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 Christ. He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places through Christ.

Jesus said: Do not touch me for I am not yet ascended to the Father. Go to my brothers, and say to them, I ascend to my Father and you're Father, and my God and your God. (Revelation 3:12)

The father

You are great and powerful, glorious, splendid, and majestic. Everything in heaven and earth is yours, and you, O Jehovah, are king, supreme ruler over all.

Lift your heads, you gates. Be lifted up, you ancient doors, so that the king of glory will come in.

The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters. The God of glory thunders, Jehovah is over many waters.

Has any nation ever exchanged gods? Their gods are not really gods. Yet my people have exchanged their glory for something that does not help them.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil (the wicked one).' (Psalm 82:4) (Psalm 97:10) (Matthew 13:19) (John 17:15) (1 John 5:19)

Glory to God in the highest. Peace on earth among men with whom he is pleased.

He said: Men, brothers and fathers, listen; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.

None of the rulers of this age knew (understood) for had they known it they would not have impaled the glorious Lord (esteemed Master).

My brothers, keep the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. Do not favor one person over the other.

They said: Amen! Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen.

The spirit

and he said to them: We will never find a better man than Joseph. He is a man who has God's Spirit in him.

The Spirit of Jehovah will rest on him. The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and respect for Jehovah will be his.

There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods. In your fathers day, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers.

Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you should say.

I will give you ability to talk and words of wisdom, which your adversaries shall not be able to resist or refute.

It is the Spirit of the truth. The world cannot receive it. The world does not see or know it. You know it because it lives with you and will be with you.

They were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spoke.

For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

Since the day we heard about you, we have not ceased to pray and make request for you. We pray for you to be filled with the [intimate accurate] knowledge (discernment) (recognition) of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. (Philippians 1:9) (John 17:3)

In him is concealed all the hidden treasures of God's wisdom and knowledge.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable (yielding), full of mercy and good fruits, without discord (partiality), without hypocrisy.

In the knowledge

May you be able to comprehend with all the holy ones the breadth and length and height and depth.

If you do these things you will have respect for Jehovah and you will find the true knowledge of God!

If they want to brag, instead let them advocate (glory) (celebrate) that they understand and know me. They should advocate that I, Jehovah, act out of love, righteousness, and justice on the earth. This kind of celebration pleases me, declares Jehovah.

I will give them a heart (will) (desire) to know me. I am Jehovah! They will be my people, and I will be their God! They will return to me with their whole heart.

No longer will each person teach his neighbors or his relatives by saying: 'Know Jehovah.' All of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me, declares Jehovah. I will forgive their wickedness and I will no longer hold (remember) their sins against them.

All things have been delivered to me from my Father. Only the Father knows the Son, and only the Son knows the Father. The Son tells others about the Father so that they can know him too.

Jesus answered: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. My Father glorifies me. He is the one whom you say is your God.

But they do these things because they do not know the Father or me.

This is everlasting life that they should have *deep, intimate knowledge of you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have commissioned. *(Greek: ginosko: know, perceive, be sure, understand)

They did not like to retain God in their knowledge, so God gave them over to a reprobate (depraved) mind, to do things that are not fitting.

Walk worthily of God, fully pleasing him. Bear fruit in every good work, and increase in the knowledge (Greek: epignosis: full discernment, recognition) of God.

I do this that they may be filled with courage and be united (knit) together in love. I have the full assurance that only true understanding brings. In this way they will accurately know God's secret, which is Christ himself.

He should instruct those who oppose using meekness. Perhaps God will give them repentance that they may know the truth.

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness.

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness. This is through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue (excellence).

Grow in the unmerited favor and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

We know that we know him, when we obey his commandments.

General references

The hearing ear and the seeing eye, Jehovah made them both.

Happy and blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.