| Norman W. De Witt - 1993 - 213 páginas
...thorn in the flesh — is immediately evidenced again. No sooner has he exhorted his followers (4:15) "to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ," than he turns to warning again in verse 17 (Revised Standard) against living "as the gentiles do, in... | |
| Markus Barth - 1959 - 280 páginas
...building. Only four verses later, however, Paul says explicitly, according to the RSV, that "from Christ the whole body, joined and knit together by every...makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love." This rather free translation of the infinitely complicated Greek sentence makes it sufficiently clear... | |
| John Calvin - 904 páginas
...no longer be children . . . carried about by every wind of doctrine . . . but seeking truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the Head, into Christ, in whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied, when each... | |
| Maurice Wiles, Mark Santer - 1975 - 282 páginas
...doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles. Rather, speaking the truth in love we are to grow up in every way into him who is the...properly, makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love' [Eph. 4: 14-16]. Paul again testifies that we who come to share in Christ's holy flesh also enjoy a... | |
| George Wolfgang Forell - 1975 - 324 páginas
...would not need justification and sanctification through him. 3. "Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body [is] joined and knit together" (Eph. 4:15, 16). The Christian Church is the congregation of the brethren... | |
| Richard F. Lovelace - 1979 - 460 páginas
...by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the...properly, makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love. (Eph. 4:12-16) UNITIVE EVANGELICALISM 10 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHURCH unity and revival has remained... | |
| Saint Basil (Bishop of Caesarea) - 1980 - 124 páginas
...speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way 11 Ps. 145:15. "Ps. 104:27. 36Ps. 145:16. into Him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the...makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love." 28 Again in the epistle to the Colossians he says to those who have no understanding of the Only-Begotten,... | |
| Kelly James Clark - 1980 - 52 páginas
...ways that people have ministered to you by helping you achieve these goals. 5. In verse 15 it says "we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ." What is our primary motive for helping the body grow ( v. 1 6)? 6. What does verse 16 teach about each... | |
| John H. Leith - 1982 - 760 páginas
...for the church, which is his body, the fulness of him who fills all in all' (Eph. i. 22, 23). Again, 'We are to grow up in every way into him who is the...from whom the whole body, joined and knit together, makes bodily growth' (Eph. iv. 15, 16). And therefore we do not allow of the doctrine of the Romish... | |
| Thomas F. Stransky, John B. Sheerin - 1982 - 390 páginas
...called, "the great ecumenical commandment": "Veritatem facientes in caritate: Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ" (Eph. 4:15). Fidelity to that Pauline "commandment" will help us to search out, understand and exploit... | |
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