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 at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light --

Open my eyes so I can truly see the marvelous things in your law!

Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed."

For the Lord has poured out on you a strong urge to sleep deeply. He has shut your eyes (the prophets), and covered your heads (the seers).

Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.

to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.

For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'

Then he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures,

A woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, a God-fearing woman, listened to us. The Lord opened her heart to respond to what Paul was saying.

to open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.

But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.

Is

that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship 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, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling,

and endurance, character, and character, hope.

For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

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

Your faith and love have arisen from the hope laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel

But since we are of the day, we must stay sober by putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet our hope for salvation.

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

as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life."

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God's children -- and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

His calling

I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called,

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

with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart (for you were in fact called as one body to this peace), and be thankful.

exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.

And in this regard we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of his calling and fulfill by his power your every desire for goodness and every work of faith,

Compete well for the faith and lay hold of that eternal life you were called for and made your good confession for in the presence of many witnesses.

Do not return evil for evil or insult for insult, but instead bless others because you were called to inherit a blessing.

And, after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

General references

The Lord did indeed accomplish great things for us. We were happy.

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.