Verš 1
And you were once dead in your sins and offenses,
Rim 5:6 - Yet why did Christ, while we were still infirm, at the proper time, suffer death for the impious?
Kol 2:13 - And when you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he enlivened you, together with him, forgiving you of all transgressions,
Verš 2
in which you walked in times past, according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of this sky, the spirit who now works in the sons of distrust.
1Kor 6:11 - And some of you were like this. But you have been absolved, but you have been sanctified, but you have been justified: all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
Kol 3:7 - You, too, walked in these things, in times past, when you were living among them.
Tít 3:3 - For, in times past, we ourselves were also unwise, unbelieving, erring, servants of various desires and pleasures, acting with malice and envy, being hateful and hating one another.
Jn 12:31 - Now is the judgment of the world. Now will the prince of this world be cast out.
Jn 14:30 - I will not now speak at length with you. For the prince of this world is coming, but he does not have anything in me.
Jn 16:11 - about judgment, then, because the prince of this world has already been judged.
Ef 6:12 - For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the directors of this world of darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in high places.
Verš 5
even when we were dead in our sins, has enlivened us together in Christ, by whose grace you have been saved.
Rim 6:8 - Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live together with Christ.
Rim 8:11 - But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead lives within you, then he who raised up Jesus Christ from the dead shall also enliven your mortal bodies, by means of his Spirit living within you.
Kol 3:1 - Therefore, if you have risen together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
Kol 3:3 - For you have died, and so your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Sk 15:11 - But by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe in order to be saved, in the same manner also as them.”
Tít 3:5 - And he saved us, not by works of justice that we had done, but, in accord with his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and by the renovation of the Holy Spirit,
Verš 8
For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God.
Mt 16:17 - And in response, Jesus said to him: “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father, who is in heaven.
Ef 1:19 - and the preeminent magnitude of his virtue toward 672 us, toward we who believe in accord with the work of his powerful virtue,
Verš 9
And this is not of works, so that no one may glory.
Rim 3:27 - So then, where is your self-exaltation? It is excluded. Through what law? That of works? No, but rather through the law of faith.
Kol 1:29 - In him, too, I labor, striving according to his action within me, which he works in virtue.
Verš 10
For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works which God has prepared and in which we should walk.
2Kor 5:17 - So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.
Ef 1:4 - just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, so that we would be holy and immaculate in his sight, in charity.
Ef 4:24 - and so put on the new man, who, in accord with God, is created in justice and in the holiness of truth.
Tít 2:14 - He gave himself for our sake, so that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and might cleanse for himself an acceptable people, pursuers of good works.
Verš 12
and that you were, in that time, without Christ, being foreign to the way of life of Israel, being visitors to the testament, having no hope of the promise, and being without God in this world.
Rim 9:4 - These are the Israelites, to whom belongs adoption as sons, and the glory and the testament, and the giving and following of the law, and the promises.
Verš 14
For he is our peace. He made the two into one, by dissolving the intermediate wall of separation, of opposition, by his flesh,
Iz 9:6 - For unto us a child is born, and unto us a son is given. And leadership is placed upon his shoulder. And his name shall be called: wonderful Counselor, mighty God, father of the future age, Prince of Peace.
Mi 5:5 - And this man will be our peace, when the Assyrian will come into our land, and when he will trample on our houses; and we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight principal men.
Jn 16:33 - These things I have spoken to you, so that you may have peace in me. In the world, you will have difficulties. But have confidence: I have overcome the world.”
Sk 10:36 - God sent the Word to the sons of Israel, announcing the peace through Jesus Christ, for he is the Lord of all.
Rim 5:1 - Therefore, having been justified by faith, let us be at peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Kol 1:20 - and that, through him, all things be reconciled to himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, for the things that are on earth, as well as the things that are in heaven.
Verš 17
And upon arriving, he evangelized peace to you who were far away, and peace to those who were near.
Iz 57:19 - I created the fruit of the lips: peace, peace to him who is far away, and peace to him who is near, said the Lord, and I healed him.
Ef 3:12 - In him we trust, and so we approach with confidence, through his faith.
Verš 18
For by him, we both have access, in the one Spirit, to the Father.
Jn 10:9 - I am the door. If anyone has entered through me, he will be saved. And he shall go in and go out, and he shall find pastures.
Jn 14:6 - Jesus said to him: “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
Rim 5:2 - For through him we also have access by faith to this grace, in which we stand firm, and to glory, in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.
Ef 3:12 - In him we trust, and so we approach with confidence, through his faith.
Heb 10:19 - And so, brothers, have faith in the entrance into the Holy of Holies by the blood of Christ,
Verš 19
Now, therefore, you are no longer visitors and new arrivals. Instead, you are citizens among the saints in the household of God,
Gal 6:10 - Therefore, while we have time, we should do good works toward everyone, and most of all toward those who are of the household of the faith.
Verš 20
having been built upon the foundation of the Apostles and of the Prophets, with Jesus Christ himself as the preeminent cornerstone.
1Kor 3:9 - For we are God’s assistants. You are God’s cultivation; you are God’s construction.
Iz 28:16 - For this reason, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will set a stone within the foundations of Zion, a tested stone, a cornerstone, a precious stone, which has been established in the foundation: whoever trusts in him need not hurry.
Mt 16:18 - And I say to you, that you are 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 has been given to me, I have laid the foundation like a wise architect. But another builds upon it. So then, let each one be careful how he builds upon it.
Zjv 21:14 - And the wall of the City had twelve foundations. And upon them were the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
1Pt 2:4 - And approaching him as if he were a living stone, rejected by men, certainly, but elect and honored by God,
Verš 21
In him, all that has been built is framed together, rising up into a holy temple in the Lord.
Ef 4:16 - For in him, the whole body is joined closely together, by every underlying joint, through the function allotted to each part, bringing improvement to the body, toward its edification in charity.
1Kor 6:19 - Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
2Kor 6:16 - And what consensus does the temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, just as God says: “I will dwell with them, and I will walk among 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.
