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

You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk (live) (be occupied) as children of light

Open my eyes that I may observe wonderful things from your law.

This people's heart has become calloused. They hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.(Septuagint)

Jehovah has made you drowsy. He shut your eyes in a deep sleep you prophets and visionaries. He overwhelmed your leaders.

Their eyes and ears will be open to the needs of the people.

You will open the eyes of the blind and set free those who sit in dark prisons.

The heart of this people is callous and dull. Their ears are plugged. They cannot hear. They closed their eyes and cannot see. They cannot see nor hear nor understand with their heart. They should turn around and I would heal them.'

He opened their minds that they might understand the scriptures.

A woman named Lydia who was a seller of purple came from Thyatira. She worshipped God because God opened her heart to listen to the things spoken by Paul.

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

The god of this age (world) (religious, social, political, and economic arrangement) has blinded the minds of unbelievers that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.

Remember the former days in which, after being enlightened, you endured great struggle with afflictions.

Is

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

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

Tribulation produces an approved condition and an approved condition produces hope.

We are saved by this hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For does a man hope for what he sees?

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

This is because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. You heard about this hope from the word of truth, the good news.

Let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love; and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting comfort and good hope by grace,

Look for the blessed hope and appearance of the glory of the great God. And look for our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Being justified by his grace (loving kindness), we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy he gave us a new birth to a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

Observe the love the Father gave to us that we should be called the children of God. That is what we are! For this reason the world does not know us. This is because it did not know him.

His calling

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, invite you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called.

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

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

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts. You were called in one body for this purpose. You be thankful.

You should walk worthily of God, who called you into his own kingdom and glory.

We pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and every work of faith with power.

Fight the good fight of the faith! Lay hold on everlasting life! You were called and confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

Do not repay evil for evil, or insult for insult. Do just the opposite. For you were called to inherit a blessing.

After you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will perfect, establish, and strengthen you.

General references

Jehovah has done spectacular things for us. We are overjoyed.

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.