Ephesians 1:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Eyes

Is

His calling

General references

Psalm 126:3

Proverbs 20:12

Matthew 13:16

Bible References

Eyes

For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold Wondrous things out of thy law.

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they sea with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.

For Jehovah hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath he covered.

And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.

For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.

Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures;

And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened to give heed unto the things which were spoken by Paul.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.

in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them .

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

Is

that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:

For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth?

For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,

But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and'such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

His calling

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful.

to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.

To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and every work of faith, with power;

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.

General references

Jehovah hath done great things for us, Whereof we are glad.

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

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