ephesians-4:22

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Ephesians 4:20-32

Putting on the “New Man” Ephesians 4:20-32 The Lord Jesus is our text-book and our teacher, the schoolhouse in which we are taught, and the object lesson in which all truth is enshrined. But all is in vain unless we definitely and forever put away the old man; that is, our old manners and customs in so far as they are contrary to the Spirit of Christ. With equal decision we are called upon to seek the daily renewal of our spirit and the outward conformity of our mode of life to the example... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 4:1-32

The apostle at once proceeded to apply this great doctrine to the present life of the Church. From the heavenly calling he passed to the earthly conduct. The matter of first importance is maintenance of the unity of the Spirit. The fact of that unity is then declared. 'There is one body, and one Spirit"; the function of the instrument so described is revealed in the words, "one hope of your calling." He then showed how the unity is created: "one Lord," the Object of faith; "one faith,"... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Ephesians 4:1-32

The Higher Christian Life Ephesians 4:1-32 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A prisoner of the Lord. One would hardly expect to find a prisoner in a Roman jail, the author of such a remarkable letter. We are accustomed to think of prisoners as men who are versed in crime. Paul, however, was a prisoner of the Lord. He was in prison, not because of his guilt, but because of his righteousness, and, withal his faithfulness to Christ. From the prison jail, Bunyan wrote as one sent of God. Behind the prison... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 4:21-24

‘If so be that you heard him, and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, that you put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, which waxes corrupt after the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man which after God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.’ If they had really heard His words as taught through witnesses, and had been taught about Him and His life, for what He brought was the truth, then... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 4:17-24

Ephesians 4:17-Jeremiah : . The Old Man and the New.— Those who are now members of the true Israel are no longer to walk as Gentiles, i.e. in the vanity of mind, the darkness, the alienation from the Divine life which springs from ignorance and obtuseness of heart, and issues in insensate abandonment to lascivious, impure, and greedy ways. Not such is the lesson of Christ! Those who have heard His voice and in Him been taught the truth— truth as it exists in Jesus— must renounce “ the old... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 4:22

That ye put off; a usual metaphor, taken from garments (implying a total abandoning, and casting away, like a garment not to be put on again): it is oppesed to putting on, Ephesians 4:24, and is the same as mortifying, Colossians 3:5, crucifying, Galatians 6:14. Concerning the former conversation; the former heathenish life and manners, Ephesians 2:2. He shows how they should put off their old man, viz. by relinquishing their old manners; the same as putting off the old man with his deeds,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ephesians 4:17-24

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESEphesians 4:17. That ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk.—In this and the two following verses we have again the lurid picture of Ephesians 2:2-3 : “in the vanity of their mind.”“The creature is their sole delight,Their happiness the things of earth.”Ephesians 4:18. Having the understanding darkened.—Remembering our Lord’s saying about the single eye and the fully illuminated body we might say, “If the understanding—by which all light should come—be... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:22

Ephesians 4:22 I. Note the very significant, though brief, outline sketch of the facts of universal sinful human nature which the Apostle gives here. (1) The first of the characteristics of the sinful self is that every Christian life, whatsoever the superficial differences in it, is really a life shaped according to, and under the influence of, passionate desires. The desires are meant to be impelling powers. It is absurdity and the destruction of true manhood to make them, as we so often do,... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Ephesians 4:22-24

DISCOURSE: 2111THE OLD MAN, AND THE NEWEphesians 4:22-24. That ye put off concerning the former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt, according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and trice holiness.CHRISTIANITY is universally professed amongst us: but many know little more of it than the name. They, who are in some measure acquainted with its principles, have, for the most part,... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Ephesians 4:22

old man (See Scofield " :-") . read more