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Efesus 1:12

supaya kami, yang sebelumnya telah menaruh harapan pada Kristus, boleh menjadi puji-pujian bagi kemuliaan-Nya.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Atonement;   Faith;   God;   Grace of God;   Holy Spirit;   Inheritance;   Salvation;   War;   Word of God;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Election;   Paul;   Praise;   Predestination;   Revelation;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Church, the;   Elect, Election;   Hope;   Providence of God;   Salvation;   Wages;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Church;   Covenant;   Eternity of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Election of Grace;   Glory;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Predestination;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Election;   Ephesians, Book of;   Foreknowledge;   Freedom;   Future Hope;   God;   Hymn;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the New Testament;   Children (Sons) of God;   Evil;   Peter, First Epistle of;   Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Christian Life;   Election;   Ephesians Epistle to the;   Love;   Praise;   Praise (2);   Predestination;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Christ;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ephesians, Epistle to the;   Eschatology of the New Testament;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for November 7;   Every Day Light - Devotion for November 25;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
supaya kami, yang sebelumnya telah menaruh harapan pada Kristus, boleh menjadi puji-pujian bagi kemuliaan-Nya.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
supaya kami menjadi suatu kepujian bagi kemuliaan-Nya, yaitu kami yang pertama-tama menaruh harap akan Kristus itu.

Contextual Overview

3 Blessed be God, the father of our Lorde Iesus Christe, whiche hath blessed vs in all spirituall blessyng, in heauenly thynges by Christe: 4 According as he had chosen vs in hym before the foundation of the world, that we shoulde be holy, and without blame before hym, through loue. 5 Who hath predestinate vs into the adoption of childre, by Iesus Christ vnto hym selfe, according to the good pleasure of his wyll: 6 To the prayse of the glorie of his grace, wherein he hath made vs accepted in the beloued. 7 In whom we haue redemption through his blood, the forgeuenesse of sinnes, accordyng to the rychesse of his grace, 8 Wherein he hath abounded towarde vs in all wysedome and prudence. 9 And hath opened vnto vs the misterie of his wyll, accordyng to his good pleasure which he had purposed in himselfe. 10 That in the dispensation of the fulnesse of the tymes, he myght gather together in one all thinges in Christe, both which are in heauen, and which are in earth, in hym. 11 In whom also we are chosen, beyng predestinate accordyng to the purpose of hym who worketh all thynges after the councell of his owne wyll: 12 That we shoulde be vnto the prayse of his glorie, whiche before beleued in Christe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

be: Ephesians 1:6, Ephesians 1:14, Ephesians 2:7, Ephesians 3:21, 2 Thessalonians 2:13

who: Ephesians 1:13, Psalms 2:12, Psalms 146:3-5, Isaiah 11:10, Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 32:1, Isaiah 32:2, Isaiah 42:1-4, Isaiah 45:23, Isaiah 45:25, Jeremiah 17:5-7, Jeremiah 23:6, Matthew 12:18-21, John 14:1, Romans 15:12, Romans 15:13, 2 Timothy 1:12, James 1:18, 1 Peter 1:21

trusted: or, hoped

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 12:22 - for his great 2 Kings 18:5 - trusted 1 Chronicles 5:20 - because 1 Chronicles 16:35 - that we may give 2 Chronicles 13:18 - relied 2 Chronicles 16:7 - Because Psalms 31:3 - for thy Psalms 86:2 - trusteth Psalms 86:9 - glorify Psalms 115:9 - trust Psalms 125:1 - that trust Psalms 138:5 - for great Proverbs 3:5 - Trust Proverbs 16:20 - whoso Song of Solomon 8:5 - leaning Isaiah 43:7 - for my Isaiah 60:21 - that I Isaiah 63:14 - to make Jeremiah 14:7 - do Jeremiah 17:7 - General Jeremiah 39:18 - because Ezekiel 20:14 - General Daniel 3:28 - that trusted Daniel 9:19 - thine Zephaniah 3:12 - and Matthew 12:21 - General Luke 19:38 - glory John 5:23 - all men John 13:31 - and God Romans 1:5 - for his name Romans 15:7 - to 1 Corinthians 15:19 - hope 2 Corinthians 1:20 - unto Galatians 1:5 - whom Philippians 1:11 - unto 2 Thessalonians 1:10 - to be glorified 1 Timothy 1:11 - glorious 1 Timothy 1:16 - for this

Cross-References

Genesis 1:10
And God called the drie lande ye earth, and the gatheryng together of waters called he the seas: and God sawe that it was good.
Genesis 1:11
And God sayde: let the earth bryng foorth [both] budde and hearbe apt to seede, and fruitfull trees yeeldyng fruite after his kynde, which hath seede in it selfe vpon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:24
And God sayde: let the earth bryng foorth lyuyng creature after his kynde, cattell, worme, and beastes of the earth after his kynde: and it was so.
Genesis 1:26
God saide: let vs make man in our image, after our lykenesse, and let them haue rule of the fisshe of the sea, & of the foule of the ayre, and of cattell, & of all the earth, and of euery creepyng thyng that creepeth vpon the earth.
Isaiah 61:11
For like as the ground bringeth foorth her fruite, and as the garden shooteth foorth seede: so shall the Lorde God cause righteousnesse and prayse to floorishe foorth before all the heathen.
Mark 4:28
For the earth bringeth foorth fruite of her selfe, first the blade, then the eare, after that, the full corne in the eare.
Luke 6:44
For euery tree is knowen by his fruite: for of thornes do not me gather fygges, nor of busshes, gather they grapes.
2 Corinthians 9:10
He that ministreth seede vnto ye sower, ministreth bread also for foode, and multiplieth your seede, and encreaseth the fruites of your ryghteousnesse:
Galatians 6:7
Be not deceaued, God is not mocked: For whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall he also reape.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That we should be to the praise of his glory,.... This is the end of predestination to the inheritance; and the sense is, either that the praise of the glory of God, in his grace and goodness, might be discovered and made known unto the saints, as it is displayed in election, redemption, justification, pardon, adoption, regeneration, and eternal salvation; or that they should praise and glorify him on account of these things, by ascribing all to his grace, and nothing to themselves; by giving him thanks for all his benefits; by ordering their conversations aright as become the Gospel; and by doing all things with a view to his glory:

who first trusted in Christ; the Jews, the apostle, and others of the Jewish nation;

who before hoped in Christ, as the words may be rendered; who hoped in Christ before the Gentiles did; and indeed the people of Israel hoped for Christ before he came; the promises of the Messiah were made to them, and he was the peculiar hope and expectation of that people; and to them he first came, and to them the Gospel was first preached; and some of them first believed in Christ, and trusted in him, and not in their own righteousness, strength, wisdom, and riches, nor in their own hearts, nor in any mere creature, nor in their carnal privileges; all which they renounced confidence in, and dependence on, when they came to the knowledge of Christ; in whose person they trusted for acceptance, and in his righteousness for justification, and in his blood for pardon, and in his fulness for supply, and in his power for protection and perseverance: this supposes knowledge of him, and a sense of the frailty and vanity of all other objects; and was a betaking themselves to him, a leaning and staying on him, a committing all unto him, and an expectation of all good things from him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That we should be to the praise of his glory - Should be the occasion or the means of celebrating his glory; or that praise should be ascribed to him as the result of our salvation.

Who first trusted in Christ - Margin, “hoped.” This is in accordance with the original. The foundation of their “hope” was the Saviour. Some suppose that the apostle here refers to the Jews who were converted before the gospel was preached extensively to the Gentiles. The reason for this opinion is, that in the following verse he contrasts those to whom he here refers with others whom he was addressing. But it may be that by the word “we” in Ephesians 1:11-12, he refers to himself and to his fellow-laborers who had “first” hoped in the Saviour, and had then gone and proclaimed the message to others; see the notes on Ephesians 1:11. They “first” believed, and then preached to others; and they also believed, and became partakers of the same privileges.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 12. That we — Jews, now apostles and messengers of God, to whom the first offers of salvation were made, and who were the first that believed in Christ.

Should be to the praise of his glory — By being the means of preaching Christ crucified to the Gentiles, and spreading the Gospel throughout the world.


 
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