Verš 1
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Rim 5:6 - For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Kol 2:13 - And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Verš 2
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
1Kor 6:11 - And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Kol 3:7 - In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
Tít 3:3 - For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Jn 12:31 - Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
Jn 14:30 - Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
Jn 16:11 - Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
Ef 6:12 - 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.
Verš 5
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
Rim 6:8 - Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Rim 8:11 - But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Kol 3:1 - If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Kol 3:3 - For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Sk 15:11 - But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
Tít 3:5 - Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Verš 8
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Mt 16:17 - And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
Ef 1:19 - And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Verš 9
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Rim 3:27 - Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Kol 1:29 - Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Verš 10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
2Kor 5:17 - Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Ef 1:4 - According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Ef 4:24 - And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Tít 2:14 - Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Verš 12
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Rim 9:4 - Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
Verš 14
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Iz 9:6 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Mi 5:5 - And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.
Jn 16:33 - These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Sk 10:36 - The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
Rim 5:1 - Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Kol 1:20 - And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Verš 17
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
Iz 57:19 - I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
Ef 3:12 - In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
Verš 18
For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Jn 10:9 - I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
Jn 14:6 - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Rim 5:2 - By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Ef 3:12 - In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
Heb 10:19 - Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Verš 19
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Gal 6:10 - As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Verš 20
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
1Kor 3:9 - For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
Iz 28:16 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Mt 16:18 - And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
1Kor 3:10 - According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
Zjv 21:14 - And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
1Pt 2:4 - To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
Verš 21
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Ef 4:16 - From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
1Kor 6:19 - What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
2Kor 6:16 - And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Ef 2,2 - Podľa antickej predstavy o svete duchovné bytosti obývali sféru vzduchu, ktorá sa rozprestierala od Zeme až po Mesiac. Sily zla pôsobili v jeho nižších sférach. Knieža tu znamená diabla.
Ef 2,3 - "My... ako ostatní", to sú Židia a pohania. "Telo" u svätého Pavla najčastejšie označuje ľudskú prirodzenosť, neposvätenú Duchom Svätým.
Ef 2,5 - Pavol tu hovorí o spáse, vzkriesení veriacich a o pozdvihnutí do neba (v. 6) ako o prítomnej skutočnosti, vďaka hlbokému životnému spojeniu po- krstených s Ježišom Kristom.
Ef 2,6 - Pravdepodobne sa tu myslí na krst, v ktorom veriaci vstáva s Kristom (Rim 6, 4) a otvára sa mu nebo, lebo má v ňom účasť na nebeských dobrách (porov. 1, 3).
Ef 2,14 - "Pokoj" – porov. Iz 9, 5; Mich 5, 4; Ag 2, 9. "Múr rozdelenia" – ide pravdepodobne o alúziu na múr, ktorý zabraňoval pohanom vstup do svätyne v chráme, a to pod trestom smrti (porov. Sk 21, 28 n.).
Ef 2,17 - Porov. Iz 57, 19; Zach 9, 10.
Ef 2,20 - Pod prorokmi sa tu rozumejú proroci Nového zákona, čiže tí, čo majú charizmu proroctva.
