Eph 5:21-24 Considering the context that follows, what does Paul mean in Eph 5:21 to “be subject to one another in the fear of Christ”? Is the statement specific to husbands and wives—that both husbands and wives are to be subject to one another—or is it more general, with the verses that follow giving a…
Eph 5:15-17 What have Paul’s words in this epistle taught us about the importance of our Christian walk as opposed to our Christian beliefs? See Eph 2:10, 4:1,17, 5:2,8,15. What does he call those who are not careful about their Christian walk? See Eph 5:15,17. In what parable did Jesus speak of the same thing? …
Eph 5:1-2 In what ways are we to be imitators of God? See Eph 5:2, 4:32. How did Christ love us? See Eph 5:2. What does this teach us about what it means to walk in love? What is the significance that Christ’s sacrifice was a fragrant or soothing aroma to God? See Lev 1…
Eph 4:17-19 In Eph 4:1 Paul admonished the Gentiles to walk in a manner worthy of their calling; how does that contrast with the pattern of the world from which they were called? See also Lev 18:3. In what ways does the worldly manner of life lived by so many reflect a futility (vanity or…
Eph 4:1-6 What is the practical response on the part of the Gentiles who through the gospel have been made fellow partakers with the Jews of the promise in Christ Jesus? See Eph 4:1, 17, 2:10, Col 1:10, 2:6, 1 Thess 2:11-12, 4:1. What is the calling with which they have been called? See Rom 1:7,…
Eph 3:1 What does the break at the end of Eph 3:1, and the repetition in Eph 3:14 of the words Paul began in Eph 3:1, tell us about the content of Eph 3:2-13? What is it in Eph 3:1 that prompts the coming digression? See Eph 3:13. Eph 3:2-13 What was the grace given…
Eph 2:11-13 What does Eph 2:11 reveal about the animosity of the Jews for the Gentiles? Do you think it is significant that the Greek word translated as “performed…by human hands” (NASB) or “made by hands” (KJV) is translated almost exclusively in the LXX (the Septuagint, or Greek version of the Old Testament) as referring…
Eph 2:1-3: What implication do the words “were” in Eph 2:1 and “formerly” in Eph 2:2 and 3 have for those who are in Christ Jesus? Does a true Christian continue in his former manner of life? See Acts 26:20, Rom 2:4. How would you describe “the course (lit. “age”) of this world”? Contrast 2 Cor…
Eph 1:15-17 In what way were the saints to whom Paul was writing faithful (Eph 1:1)? See Eph 1:15, Col 1:4, Phm 1:5, 1 Thess 4:9-10. For what did Paul pray in Eph 1:17 that God would give to the faithful saints in Asia? See also Col 1:9. Why is “a spirit of wisdom and of…
Eph 1:1-2 What does it mean to be a saint? See 1 Cor 1:2. What does it mean to be “faithful in Christ Jesus”? See also Col 1:2. How might one be unfaithful in Christ Jesus? Is one who walks, talks, and acts like the world and yet claims to follow Christ a faithful saint in…