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Ephesians 5:10 — King James Version← Study notes

Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.


Ephesians 5:10Greek Interlinear

Greek · Ephesians 5:106 words
GreekMeaning
δοκιμάζοντεςdokimazontes
discerningverbG1381
τίti
whatpronounG5100
ἐστινestin
isverbG1510
εὐάρεστονeuareston
well-pleasingadjectiveG2101
τῷ
to thearticleG3588
κυρίῳkyriō
LordnounG2962
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:10

“For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord.” “In all goodness,” he says: this is opposed to the angry, and the bitter: “and righteousness”; this to the covetous: “and truth”; this to false pleasure: not those former things, he says, which I was mentioning, but their opposites. “In all”; that is, the fruit of the Spirit ought to be evinced in everything. “Proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord”;…

Chrysostom · 4th century · Homily 18 on Ephesians
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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