Ephesians Chapter 6 verse 17 Holy Bible

ASV Ephesians 6:17

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
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BBE Ephesians 6:17

And take salvation for your head-dress and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
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DARBY Ephesians 6:17

Have also the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is God's word;
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KJV Ephesians 6:17

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
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WBT Ephesians 6:17


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WEB Ephesians 6:17

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
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YLT Ephesians 6:17

and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,
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Ephesians 6 : 17 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - And take the helmet of salvation. This is the head-covering (comp. Psalm 140:7). In 1 Thessalonians 5:8 we read, "putting on for an helmet the hope of salvation." The glorious truth that we are saved (comp. Ephesians 2:5, 8) appropriated, rested on, rejoiced in, will protect even so vital a part as the head, will keep us from intellectual surrender and rationalistic doubt. And the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. The sword supplied by the Spirit, the Word being inspired by him, and employed by the Spirit; for he enlightens us to know it, applies it to us, and teaches us to use it both defensively and offensively. Our Lord in his conflict with Satan, and also with the scribes and Pharisees, has taught us how this weapon is to be used, and with what wonderful effect. Paul, too, reasoning from the Scriptures and proving from them "that this Jesus whom I preach unto you is the Christ," or (going back to the Old Testament) the author of the hundred and nineteenth psalm, showing us how the soul is to be fed, quickened, strengthened and comforted out of God's Law, indicates the manifold use of the sword, and shows how earnestly we should study and practice this sword exercise, for our own good and the good of others.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) And take.--There is a break here. We are said not to put on, but to "take" (or rather, receive)--a word specially appropriate to "salvation."The helmet of salvation.--The word here (as in Luke 2:30; Luke 3:6; Acts 28:28) rendered "salvation," is not the word commonly so rendered in the New Testament. It is, indeed, not "salvation" in the abstract, but a general expression for "that which tends to salvation." But it occurs in the LXX. version of Isaiah 59:17, which seems obviously referred to, "He put" a helmet of salvation upon his head." In 1Thessalonians 5:8, where the breastplate is "of faith and love," the helmet supplies the third member of the triad of Christian graces in "the hope of salvation." Here the metaphor is probably somewhat different. The helmet guarding the head, the most noble and vital part, is "salvation" in the concrete--all that is of the Saviour, all that makes up our "state of salvation" by His atonement and grace--received in earnest now, hoped for in perfection hereafter. . . .