ephesians-6:13

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 6:13-14

Ephesians 6:13-14 I. Note the prohibition involved in the precept. It forbids (1) indolent or even weary sleep; (2) cowardly or even politic flight; (3) a treacherous or even a desponding surrender; (4) the declaration of a truce or even an application for it; (5) the giving up of a militant position until the war is fairly over. II. What do these words demand? (1) They require a distinct and solemn recognition of the fact that the time of our life on earth is a time of war, "an evil day." (2)... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Ephesians 6:12-13

DISCOURSE: 2127TO WITHSTAND THE POWER OF SATANEphesians 6:12-13. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye way be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.IN persuading men to undertake any arduous office, and more especially to enlist into the army, it is customary to keep... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ephesians 6:1-24

Chapter 6Now parent-child relationships,Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right ( Ephesians 6:1 ).That "in the Lord" I think is important. If your parents are not godly and if your parents are demanding you to do things or requiring you to do things that are improper from a spiritual base, then I do not believe that obedience is required. But obey your parents in the Lord.There is the higher conscience to God, where we must obey God rather than man. If what is being required... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ephesians 6:1-24

Ephesians 6:1-3 . Children, obey your parents, because they are your parents, who gave you birth, and nourished you with food and fond affection in all your tender years. Their age and experience qualify them to guide and command, and in all their domestic regulations they aim solely at your good. If you disobey them in their wise and just commands, you disobey the Lord, whom your parents represent. Therefore love them, as they love you; and honour them with reverence and filial obedience.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ephesians 6:13

Ephesians 6:13Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand.Military metaphorsSt. Paul lay in prison at Rome, as he himself says, bound with a chain, “for the hope of Israel,” to the Roman trooper who watched him day and night. He employed his prison hours by writing--first to the Asiatic Churches of Ephesus and Colosse, to the Christian slaveholder, Philemon, and, at a somewhat later date, to the Macedonian... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ephesians 6:13

13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Ver. 13. That ye may be able to withstand ] Not seeking to resist Satan’s craft with craft, fraud with fraud, sed per apertum martem, but by open defiance. He shoots, saith Greenham, with Satan in his own bow, who thinks by disputing and reasoning to put him off. To argue the case with him is but, as the proverb hath it, to light a candle to the devil. Button... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ephesians 6:13

take: Ephesians 6:11-Esther :, 2 Corinthians 10:4 the whole: בםןנכיב [Strong's G3833], a complete suit of armour, both offensive and defensive, from נבם, all, and ןנכןם [Strong's G3696], armour. in the: Ephesians 5:6, Ephesians 5:16, Ecclesiastes 12:1, Amos 6:3, Luke 8:13, Revelation 3:10 done all: or, overcome all to stand: Malachi 3:2, Luke 21:36, Colossians 4:12, Revelation 6:17 Reciprocal: Psalms 1:1 - standeth Isaiah 5:27 - neither Jeremiah 17:17 - thou Ezekiel 13:5 - to stand Amos... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Ephesians 6:13

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.In the evil day — The war is perpetual; but the fight is one day less, another more, violent. The evil day is either at the approach of death, or in life; may be longer or shorter and admits of numberless varieties.And having done all, to stand — That ye may still keep on your armour, still stand upon your guard, still watch and pray; and thus ye will be enabled to... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 6:13

13. Wherefore In view of the supernatural powers you have to encounter. Surely a divine armour, and the whole we can use, are necessary for a supernatural battle. Of the whole armour St. Paul mentions six pieces; four fixed in contact upon the body, namely: the girdle or belt, breastplate, sandals, and helmet; and two in the hands, the shield and the sword. All are protective but the last. And he mentions them in the order in which the warrior would be apt to put them on for battle.... read more