Verš 1
"And you has 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, has he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; "
Verš 2
Wherein in time past all of you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit (o. pneuma) that now works in the children of disobedience:
1Kor 6:11 - And such were some of you: but all of you are washed, but all of you are sanctified, but all of you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit (o. pneuma) of our God.
Kol 3:7 - In the which all of you also walked some time, when all of you 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 comes, and has 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, has quickened us together with Christ, (by grace all of you 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 (o. pneuma) of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also retore life in your mortal bodies by his Spirit (o. pneuma) that dwells in you.
Kol 3:1 - If all of you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God.
Kol 3:3 - For all of you 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 Spirit; (o. pneuma) "
Verš 8
"For by grace are all of you 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 are you, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood has not revealed it unto you, but my Father which is in heaven.
Ef 1:19 - And what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us 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 - Unto which I also labour, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
Verš 10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has 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 has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: (o. agape)
Ef 4:24 - And that all of you 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 an exclusive people, zealous of good works.
Verš 12
That at that time all of you 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 pertains 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 has made both one, and has 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, Counsellor, 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 all of you might have peace. In the world all of you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. "
Sk 10:36 - The word (o. logos) 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 far 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, says 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 (o. pneuma) 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 says unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes 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 all of you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens 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: all of you are God's farming, all of you are God's building.
Iz 28:16 - Therefore thus says 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 believes shall not make haste.
Mt 16:18 - "And I say also unto 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 is given unto me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds 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 grows 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 supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. (o. agape)
1Kor 6:19 - What? know all of you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit (o. pneuma) which is in you, which all of you have of God, and all of you are not your own?
2Kor 6:16 - "And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for all of you are the temple of the living God; as God has 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.
