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 now light in the Lord; walk as children of light,

Open mine eyes, and I shall behold wondrous things out of thy law.

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and healed.

For Jehovah hath poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes; the prophets and your chiefs, 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 forth the prisoner from the prison, them that sit in darkness out of the house of restraint.

for the heart of this people has grown fat, and they have heard heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes as asleep, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Then he opened their understanding to understand the scriptures,

And a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard; whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things spoken by Paul.

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

in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine forth for them.

But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;

Is

that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

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

and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;

For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?

For we, by the Spirit, on the principle of faith, await the hope of righteousness.

on account of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens; of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the glad tidings,

but we being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as helmet the hope of salvation;

But our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us, and given us eternal consolation and good hope by grace,

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

that, having been justified by his grace, we should become 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, has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from among the dead,

See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called the children of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

His calling

I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you therefore to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called,

But we do know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.

I pursue, looking towards the goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.

And let the peace of Christ preside in your hearts, to which also ye have been called in one body, and be thankful.

that ye should walk worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.

To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power,

Strive earnestly in the good conflict of faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but on the contrary, blessing others, because ye have been called to this, that ye should inherit blessing.

But the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered for a little while, himself shall make perfect, stablish, strengthen, ground:

General references

Jehovah hath done great things for us; and we are joyful.

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

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