Ephesians 5:10

Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

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Word by word — the Greek

Word	Greek	Strong’s	Meaning
Proving	δοκιμάζοντες dokimazontes	G1381	to test (literally or figuratively) · verb — present active participle, nominative plural masculine
what	τί ti	G5101	an interrogative pronoun · interrogative pronoun — nominative singular neuter
is	ἐστί estí	G2076	he (she or it) is
acceptable	εὐάρεστον euareston	G2101	fully agreeable · adjective — nominative singular neuter
Lord	κυρίῳ. kuriō	G2962	supreme in authority · noun — dative singular masculine, a title

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Cross-references

Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which i…
Psalms 19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Hebrews 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear…
1 Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus…
1 Peter 2:20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye ta…
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Proverbs 21:3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Romans 14:18 For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ephesians 5:3-20

These verses contain a caution against all manner of uncleanness, with proper remedies and arguments proposed: some further cautions are added, and other duties recommended. Filthy lusts must be suppressed, in order to the supporting of holy love. Walk in love, and shun fornication and all uncleanness. Fornication is folly committed between unmarried persons. All uncleanness includes all other sorts of filthy lusts, which were too common among the Gentiles. Or covetousness, which being thus connected, and mentioned as a thing which should not be once named, some understand it, in the chaste style of the scripture, of unnatural lust; while others take it in the more common sense, for an immod…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ephesians 5:10

Proving--construed with "walk" (Eph 5:8; Rom 12:1-2). As we prove a coin by the eye and the ear, and by using it, so by accurate and continued study, and above all by practice and experimental trial, we may prove or test "what is acceptable unto the Lord." This is the office of "light," of which believers are "children," to manifest what each thing is, whether sightly or unsightly.

Adam Clarke on Ephesians 5:10

Proving what is acceptable - By walking in the light - under the influence of the Divine Spirit, according to the dictates of the Gospel, ye shall be able to try, and bring to full proof, that by which God is best pleased. Ye shall be able to please him well in all things.

John Gill on Ephesians 5:10

Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. There are many things that are acceptable to God, as the person of Christ, his righteousness, sacrifice, sufferings, death, and mediation; the persons of his people, their services, sufferings, sacrifices of prayer, and praise to him, and of bounty and liberality to the poor; their graces, and the exercise of them; and the actions of their lives and conversations, when they are becoming the Gospel, are according to the will of God, and are done in faith, and are directed to his glory: and these things which are acceptable to God, as all the truths of the Gospel, and duties of religion are, should be proved, or tried by men; and in order to the trial…

The Church Fathers

You share in the Word. You have received the grace of the Holy Spirit. Now you are made able to discern what is pleasing to God.
— Theodoret of Cyrus, Interpretation of the Epistle to the Ephesians 5.10

From the abundance of his holiness and goodness it is possible to know what works delight God. … In his holiness we are purified. In his mercy we are brought to full and perfect righteousness.
— Ambrosiaster, EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 5.10

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Holiness · 2:17;5:22-25;6:15; — 2:17;5:22-25;6:15;

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Ephesians 5:10

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ephesians 5:3-20

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ephesians 5:10

Adam Clarke on Ephesians 5:10

John Gill on Ephesians 5:10

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Ephesians 5:10

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ephesians 5:3-20

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ephesians 5:10

Adam Clarke on Ephesians 5:10

John Gill on Ephesians 5:10

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Ephesians 5:8-14

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ephesians 5:10