Chapter 5: Walking in Love

•VERSE 4 “Convenient” means necessary. Foolish talking and jesting are jokes that refer to fornication, uncleanness, and filthiness. Dirty jokes have no place in a Christian's conversation.

•VERSE 16 It's so easy to waste time. We need to look for ways to use our time wisely.

•VERSE 18 Be ye being filled or continually filled with the Spirit.

•VERSE 19 We can encourage ourselves in the Lord by repeating scriptures and singing hymns and spiritual songs (1 Samuel 30:6; Psalm 42:5).

•VERSE 23 This verse gives God's order for the home. If we try to defy God's order, we invite unhappiness into our relationships.

•VERSE 25 Christ demonstrated His love for the Church in a powerful way. The more a husband shows his love to his wife and seeks to make her secure in his love, the easier for her to submit to him.

•VERSE 26 The Word of God is one of the most powerful cleansing agents within the Church.

•VERSE 27 Righteousness isn't something we attain by our actions; it's a gift we receive by our faith in Jesus Christ.

•VERSE 33 Women were regarded in Greek and Jewish cultures as one step above a slave.

Paul here encouraged the husbands to regard their wives as beloved companions. “Reverence” also means respect.

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“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18). We believe that every born again child of God has the Holy Spirit dwelling in him. He is under the injunction of the Scriptures to yield his body to the control of the Holy Spirit and to be constantly filled with the Holy Spirit.