the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Ephesians 3:14
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For this reason I kneel before the Father
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
For this reason I bend my knees before the Father,
So I bow in prayer before the Father
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
... for this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
I kneel in prayer to the Father.
For this reason, I fall on my knees before the Father,
For this reason I bow my knees to the Father [of our Lord Jesus Christ],
So I bow in prayer before the Father.
For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ,
For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ,
For this reason I fall on my knees before the Father,
On account of this, I bend my knees before the Father,
For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
For this reason [grasping the greatness of this plan by which Jews and Gentiles are joined together in Christ] I bow my knees [in reverence] before the Father [of our Lord Jesus Christ],
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,
For this cause I go down on my knees before the Father,
For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah,
This is the reason I bow my knees before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,of our Lord Jesus Christ">[fn]
for this is your glory; and I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha,
And I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah,
For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the father of our Lorde Iesus Christe,
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,
For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ,
For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
For this reason, on bended knee I beseech the Father,
For grace of this thing Y bowe my knees to the fadir of oure Lord Jhesu Crist,
For this cause I bow my knees to the Father,
For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
For this reason I kneel before the Father,
For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, [fn]
When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father,
For this reason, I bow my knees and pray to the Father.
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
For this cause, I bow my knees unto the Father, -
For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the father of oure lorde Iesus Christ
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the father of oure LORDE Iesus Christ,
for this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you'll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.
When I ponder on all this, I always end up on my knees and praying to the Boss.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I: Ephesians 1:16-19, 1 Kings 8:54, 1 Kings 19:18, 2 Chronicles 6:13, Ezra 9:5, Psalms 95:6, Isaiah 45:23, Daniel 6:10, Luke 22:41, Acts 7:60, Acts 9:40, Acts 20:36, Acts 21:5
the Father: Ephesians 1:3
Reciprocal: Genesis 4:26 - Enos 1 Kings 18:36 - Lord God Psalms 72:17 - his name Micah 6:6 - bow Zechariah 14:9 - and Matthew 6:6 - pray Mark 1:40 - kneeling John 4:21 - worship John 14:1 - ye John 14:13 - in my John 16:23 - Whatsoever Acts 6:4 - prayer Romans 1:9 - I make 1 Corinthians 8:6 - one God 2 Corinthians 11:31 - God Ephesians 2:18 - the Philippians 2:10 - every Colossians 1:3 - praying Colossians 1:9 - that ye 2 Thessalonians 1:11 - we pray 1 Peter 1:17 - call
Cross-References
Now the serpent was more subtill then any beast of the field, which the LORD God had made, and he said vnto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of euery tree of the garden?
And I will put enmitie betweene thee and the woman, and betweene thy seed and her seed: it shal bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heele.
And Adam called his wiues name Eue, because she was the mother of all liuing.
Who so sheddeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Ye shall therefore put difference betweene cleane beasts, and vncleane, and betweene vncleane foules, and cleane: & ye shall not make your soules abominable by beast or by foule, or by any maner of liuing thing, that creepeth on the ground, which I haue separated from you as vncleane.
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
And thou shalt bee brought downe, and shalt speake out of the ground, and thy speach shall be low out of the dust, and thy voyce shalbe as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speach shall whisper out of the dust.
The wolfe and the lambe shall feede together, and the lyon shall eate straw like the bullocke: and dust shalbe the serpents meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountaine, sayth the Lord.
They shall licke the dust like a serpent, they shall moue out of their holes like wormes of the earth: they shall be afraid of the Lord our God, and shall feare because of thee.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,.... That is, pray unto him for the perseverance of the saints; for nothing is more desirable to the ministers of Christ than that; which is the pure gift of God, and is what he has promised, and therefore should be prayed to for it; for what God has designed and promised to his people, he will be sought to; and the apostle's view might be also to stir up these saints to pray for themselves: the gesture he used in prayer was bowing the knees; a man is not tied to any particular gesture or posture in prayer, the main thing is the heart; mere postures and gestures are insignificant things with God; though where the mind is affected, the body will be moved; and this gesture may be expressive of reverence, humility, and submission in prayer: the object he prayed unto is the Father; that is, as follows,
of our Lord Jesus; though these words are wanting in the Alexandrian copy, and Ethiopic version, yet are rightly retained in others; for God is the Father of Christ, not by creation, nor adoption, but by generation, being the only begotten of the Father; and as such he is rightly prayed to, since not only Christ prayed to him as such; but he is the Father of his people in and through Christ; and there is no other way of coming to him but by Christ; and all spiritual blessings come though Christ, and from God, as the Father of Christ.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For this cause - Some suppose that this is a resumption of what he had commenced saying in Ephesians 3:1, but which had been interrupted by a long parenthesis. So Bloomfield explains it. But it seems to me more probable that he refers to what immediately precedes. “Wherefore, that the great work may be carried on, and that the purposes of these my sufferings may be answered in your benefit and glory, I bow my knees to God, and pray to him.”
I bow my knees - I pray. The usual, and the proper posture of prayer is to kneel; Compare 2 Chronicles 6:13; Daniel 6:10; Luke 22:21; Acts 7:60; Acts 9:40; Acts 20:26; Acts 21:5. It is a posture which indicates reverence, and should, therefore, be assumed when we come before God. It has been an unhappy thing that the custom of kneeling in public worship has ever been departed from in the Christian churches.
Unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ - To whom, undoubtedly, prayer should ordinarily be addressed. But this does not make it improper to address the Lord Jesus in prayer; see the notes; 7:59-60 on Acts 1:24.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 14. For this cause I bow my knees — That you may not faint, but persevere, I frequently pray to God, who is our God and the Father of our Lord Jesus. Some very ancient and excellent MSS. and versions omit the words του Κυριου ἡμων Ιησου Χριστου, of our Lord Jesus Christ. And in them the passage reads: I bow my knees unto the Father. The apostle prays to God the Father, that they may not faint; and he bows his knees in this praying. What can any man think of himself, who, in his addresses to God, can either sit on his seat or stand in the presence of the Maker and Judge of all men? Would they sit while addressing any person of ordinary respectability? If they did so they would be reckoned very rude indeed. Would they sit in the presence of the king of their own land? They would not be permitted so to do. Is God then to be treated with less respect than a fellow mortal? Paul kneeled in praying, Acts 20:36; Acts 21:5. Stephen kneeled when he was stoned, Acts 7:60. And Peter kneeled when he raised Tabitha, Acts 9:40.
Many parts of this prayer bear a strict resemblance to that offered up by Solomon, 2 Chronicles 6:1, c., when dedicating the temple: He kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands towards heaven 2 Chronicles 6:13. The apostle was now dedicating the Christian Church, that then was and that ever should be, to God; and praying for those blessings which should ever rest on and distinguish it; and he kneels down after the example of Solomon, and invokes him to whom the first temple was dedicated, and who had made it a type of the Gospel Church.
