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

Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

Make the heart of this people dull, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return, and be healed.

For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers has he covered.

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

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

For this people's heart has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, so that she attended unto the things which were spoken by Paul.

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

In whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of them who believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight with afflictions;

Is

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

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling;

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for?

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

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

But let us, who 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, even our Father, who has loved us, and has given us everlasting encouragement and good hope through grace,

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;

That being justified by his grace, we should 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 abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

His calling

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation by which you are called,

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

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you are called in one body; and be thankful.

That you would walk worthy of God, who has called you unto his kingdom and glory.

Therefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you are also called, and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.

Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but on the contrary blessing; knowing that you are unto this called, that you should inherit a blessing.

But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, restore, establish, strengthen, settle you.

General references

The LORD has done great things for us; and we are glad.

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them.

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