Ephesians Quotes

“The reality of the ordinary progress of Christian understanding should not escape our notice: early believers "know no answers"; immature believers "know all the answers"; and mature believers "know the limits of our answers.”
― Bryan Chapell, Ephesians

“Let me paraphrase what Paul is saying here: Jesus married the Church - Christians, you and me, us. The Church is His literal bride. He laid His life down for the Church. And Paul writes that husbands should love their wives in the same way that Jesus loved The Church, and vice-versa.

What a daunting task.

But what is made clear in this passage is that marriage was designed to display the love that Jesus has for the Church, His bride. It’s the closest thing we can get to tasting the kind of love that He has for us - a sacrificing love, a serving love, a selfless love.

Do you see what this means?

Marriage isn’t really about us.

It’s not.

It’s about God.

It’s about the Gospel.”
― Cole Ryan, Dating: I Think We've Missed The Point

“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”
― Ephesians 3 2021 NIV

“Paul is not the one who needs an update—we do, considering that the tools used for interpretation have already been updated. They can help us find where many interpretations of the same texts have varied among those who hold a high view of Scripture.”
― Sandra L. Glahn, Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament