Passage Research
Ephesians 5 — Sermon Preparation
Paul calls for a life of love and light in contrast to darkness, and uses the marriage relationship as a picture of the bond between Christ and the church. Below is a research summary for Ephesians 5, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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Ephesians 5 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| γυνή | gynḗ | G1135 | 8 | wife, woman |
| ἀγαπάω | agapáō | G25 | 7 | love |
| ἐκκλησία | ekklēsía | G1577 | 6 | assembly, church |
| ἀνήρ | anḗr | G435 | 6 | fellow, husband, man, sir |
| φῶς | phōs | G5457 | 4 | fire, light |
| περιπατέω | peripatéō | G4043 | 3 | go, be occupied with, walk |
| σῶμα | sōma | G4983 | 3 | bodily, body, slave |
How preachers through history handled this text
35 public-domain excerpts on Ephesians 5, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Filthy lusts must be rooted out. These sins must be dreaded and detested. Here are not only cautions against gross acts of sin, but against what some may make light of. But these things are so far from being profitable. that they pollute and poison the hearers. Our cheerfulness should show itself as becomes Christians, in what may tend to God's glory. A covetous man makes a god of his money; places that hope, confidence, and delight, in worldly good, which should be in God only. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Ephesians 5:3–14 (Public Domain)
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