Ephesians 3:17-19

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ephesians 3:19

EPHESIANS THE CLIMAX OF ALL PRAYER Eph_3:19 The Apostle’s many-linked prayer, which we have been considering in successive sermons, has reached its height. It soars to the very Throne of God. There can be nothing above or beyond this wonderful petition. Rather, it might seem as if it were too much to ask, and as if, in the ecstasy of prayer, Paul had forgotten the limits that separate the creature from the Creator, as well as the experience of sinful and imperfect men, and had sought to... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Ephesians 3:14-21

the Greatest of All Desires Ephesians 3:14-21 The kernel of this prayer is in the clause that Christ may make His home in the believer’s heart through faith. The previous petitions lead up to this. Note the Apostle’s attitude-with bended knee; his plea with God-that He is the Father from whom all family love emanates; his measure-the wealth of God’s glorious perfection; the necessary preliminary to Christ’s indwelling-the penetration of our inmost being with the strength of the Holy Spirit.... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 3:1-21

God's dwelling in the Church is not finality. It is equipment for the fulfillment of the divine purpose. The apostle claims a stewardship in the mystery of the Church, and declares the astounding fact that "unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the Church the manifold wisdom of God." In his Corinthian letter the apostle showed that the Word of the Cross is the wisdom of God. Therefore, through the Church is to come the proclamation to the... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 3:17

LOVE BASED ON KNOWLEDGE‘Rooted and grounded in love.’ Ephesians 3:17 Sentimental love is seldom the genuine article, since those who feel most say the least. And the idea that religion should be grounded on sentiment, and reserved for those who ‘have a genius for it,’ is utterly false. It was intended for all men, not merely to gratify natural tastes and aptitudes. It should act at first on the heart as a strong remedy, not as a soporific to lull it into false security. It is hardly a paradox... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 3:19

THE LOVE OF CHRIST‘To know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge.’ Ephesians 3:19 Well does St. Paul speak of ‘the love which passeth knowledge.’ We may go on to know more of it, but we can never know it all. I. We ourselves would always be conscious of this love which ‘our Saviour has to us,’ but too often the sense of it grows faint; it is intermittent or seems to be suspended altogether, so that we lose the strength and joy that it cannot fail to bring when we realise it; but thank... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 3:14-17

‘For this reason I bow my knees to the Father from whom every Fatherhood in Heaven and on earth is named, that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.’ Paul now feels constrained to express his prayer on their behalf. Prison gave much time for praying and Paul used it to the full. Aware of the future they faced he prayed for their divine empowering without... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 3:14-21

Paul’s Prayer for His Readers (3:14-21). ‘For this reason -.’ Compare Ephesians 3:1 which begins in the same way. Does this mean that this is the continuation that he would have made had he not made a diversion? There are good grounds for suggesting that that occurs in Ephesians 4:1 when he returns to the theme of the prisoner of the Lord, and exhorts them to walk worthily of their calling and maintain the unity of the Spirit. We may equally see the prayer here as resulting from his outlining... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 3:17-19

Enjoying the empowering of the Spirit and the indwelling of the risen Christ their very being will be rooted and grounded in love, for love is the basis of their salvation (John 3:16; Romans 5:8; 1 John 4:9-10), the nest in which they find their rest (1 John 4:8), the goal ever set before them (1 John 4:11). And it is the love of Christ which is beyond all knowledge. It is something that is so vast that its breadth, length, height and depth will take all the people of God through all ages to... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 3:14-21

Ephesians 3:14-Ecclesiastes : . The Writer’ s Prayer for his Readers.— Kneeling, in a very ecstasy of prayer, before the Father who is the source and prototype of all fatherly relationship whether on earth or in heaven, the writer prays that, in a degree commensurate with the wealth of the Divine glory, his readers may be granted power and strength through the Spirit unto inner spiritual growth; that the indwelling of Christ in their hearts may through faith be realised; that Christian love... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 3:17

That Christ; on whom this Spirit (who must strengthen you, as being a Spirit of might, Isaiah 11:2) resteth, Isaiah 61:1 May dwell in your hearts; may intimately and continually possess and fill, not your heads only with his doctrine, but your affections with his Spirit: see John 14:23. By faith; whereby ye not only believe Cllrist’s truth, but receive and apprehend himself, and which is the means by which ye have union and communion with him. That ye, being rooted and grounded in love: either... read more

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