Efeziërs 1:15

Staten Vertaling

Daarom ook ik, gehoord hebbende het geloof in den Heere Jezus, dat onder u is, en de liefde tot al de heiligen,

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Dewijl ik dan van uw geloof in den Heer Jezus en van uw liefde jegens alle heiligen gehoord heb,

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Daarom ook ik, nadat ik gehoord heb van uw geloof in den Heere Jezus, en van uwe liefde tot alle heiligen,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

after: Colossians 1:3, Colossians 1:4, Philemon 1:5

faith: Galatians 5:6, 1 Thessalonians 1:3, 2 Thessalonians 1:3, 1 Timothy 1:5, 1 Timothy 1:14

love: Psalms 16:3, Colossians 1:4, 1 Thessalonians 4:9, Hebrews 6:10, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 John 3:17, 1 John 4:21

Reciprocal: John 14:1 - ye Acts 6:4 - prayer Romans 16:19 - I am Ephesians 3:18 - with Philippians 1:1 - the saints Philippians 1:3 - upon Philippians 1:27 - I may Colossians 1:9 - since 1 Thessalonians 1:2 - General 1 Thessalonians 4:10 - all the 1 Timothy 6:2 - because they are 1 Peter 1:21 - your 1 John 3:14 - because 3 John 1:3 - when

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore I also,.... As well as others:

after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus; who is the immediate object of faith, and a very proper and suitable one; having every thing in him that is agreeable to the case and circumstances of those that trust in him. And the grace of faith, which terminates on him, is a seeing him, a beholding the glory of his person, and the fulness of his grace; a going to him, and venturing on him; a laying hold upon him, and embracing of him; a committing all unto him, and a leaning and depending on him, and a living upon him, and a walking on in him.

And love unto all the saints: whether Jew or Gentile, rich or poor, greater or lesser believers, of meaner gifts, or larger abilities; and which love was unfeigned, fervent, active, and laborious; and which is the evidence of regeneration, and without which a profession is in vain. These two graces, faith and love, are inseparable; they always go together, and are to be found in the same persons; and where they are, they cannot be hid, as they were not in these Ephesians; their faith was professed by them, and was made public, and their love showed itself in deeds, as well as in words, to the saints: hence the apostle came to hear of them both, upon the certain relation of others; for these things were come abroad, and were talked of; :-.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore, I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus - This is one of the passages usually relied on by those who suppose that this Epistle was not written to the Ephesians. The argument is, that he writes to them as if they were strangers to him, and that it is not language such as would be used in addressing a people among whom he had spent three years; see the introduction, section 5. But this inference is not conclusive. Paul had been some years absent from Ephesus when this Epistle was written. In the difficult communication in those times between distant places, it is not to be supposed that he would hear often from them. Perhaps he had heard nothing after the time when he bade farewell to the elders of Ephesus at Miletus Acts 20:0, until the time here referred to. It would be, therefore, a matter of great interest with him to hear from them; and when in some way intelligence was brought to him at Rome of a very gratifying character about their growth in piety, he says that his anxiety was relieved, and that he did not cease to give thanks for what he had heard, and to commend them to God in prayer.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. Faith in the Lord Jesus — Cordial reception of the Christian religion, amply proved by their love to all the saints-to all the Christians. Perhaps love here implies, not only the kind affection so called, but also all the fruits of love-benevolence, and kind offices of every description.