Ephesians Chapter 5 verse 20 Holy Bible

ASV Ephesians 5:20

giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
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BBE Ephesians 5:20

Giving praise at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
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DARBY Ephesians 5:20

giving thanks at all times for all things to him [who is] God and [the] Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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KJV Ephesians 5:20

Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
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WBT Ephesians 5:20


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WEB Ephesians 5:20

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
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YLT Ephesians 5:20

giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;
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Ephesians 5 : 20 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - Giving thanks always for all things; this being not only a most Christian duty, but an excellent way to keep the heart in good tone, to keep up happy feelings - the duty not being occasional, but "always," and not for things prima facto agreeable only, but "for all things" (see Job 2:10; Romans 8:28). In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father. God the Father is the proper Object of thanksgiving, as of prayer generally; but the thanks are to be given in the Name of Christ. That is, through him who has brought in the economy of grace, whereby for wrath we get blessing, for suffering we get reward, for misery glory; whereby, in short, the whole aspect of life is brightened, and even the greatest trials and sorrows turned into real blessings.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) Giving thanks always for all things.--This temper of universal and pervading thankfulness is dwelt upon in the First Epistle to the Thessalonians (1Thessalonians 5:18) as indissolubly united with unceasing joy and prayer ("Rejoice evermore; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks.") Since thanksgiving is for what God has given us, and prayer for what we still need, both must be united in our imperfect condition here. In Colossians 3:17 it is associated with action "in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ." Here it is dealt with alone, as the basis of the praises, public and private, corporate and individual, described above. In regard to the former, St. Paul marks thanksgiving as the fundamental and invariable element of all Christian worship, clothing itself naturally in all variety of music; in regard to the latter, he describes the habitual spirit of thankfulness, prevailing alike in joy and sorrow, undisturbed even by penitent sense of sin, as the inner music of all Christian life.Unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.--Both these expressions are emphatic. To all consciousness of God belong fear and reverence; to the belief in Him as "our Father" (see Romans 8:14-17; Galatians 4:4-6) specially belong love and thanksgiving. But it is "in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ"--that is, as identified in perfect unity with Him--that we have the adoption to sonship which is the ground of such thanksgiving. So also in the same unity (see John 14:13; John 15:16; John 16:23-24) we have the ground of perfect confidence in prayer. . . .