The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.

A new commentary for today's world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible's grand story. The first commentary series to do so, SGBC offers a clear and compelling exposition of biblical texts, guiding everyday readers in how to creatively and faithfully live out the Bible in their own contexts. Its story-centric approach is ideal for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and laypeople alike. Each volume employs three main, easy-to-use sections designed to help readers live out God's story: LISTEN to the Story: Includes complete NIV text with references to other texts at work in each passage, encouraging the reader to hear it within the Bible's grand story. EXPLAIN the Story: Explores and illuminates each text as embedded in its canonical and historical setting. LIVE the Story: Reflects on how each text can be lived today and includes contemporary stories and illustrations to aid preachers, teachers, and students. —Ephesians— Like all of Paul's letters, Ephesians is centered in the gospel and its implications. It tells the story of what God has done in Christ and spells out the ethical implications of this story. But the letter to the Ephesians is unique among Paul's letters in many ways, including in how it tells of the story of God, beginning "before the creation of the world" and ending in eternity. Edited by Scot McKnight and Tremper Longman III, and written by a number of top-notch theologians, The Story of God Bible Commentary series will bring relevant, balanced, and clear-minded theological insight to any biblical education or ministry.

Excerpt from Salvation by Grace: Through Faith; A Discourse on Ephesians, II. 8. For by Grace Are Ye Saved Through Faith; And That Not of Yourselves: It Is the Gift of God For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. In whatever point of view we contemplate the divine economy, in the salvation of mankind, we are forcibly struck with admiration at the infinite wisdom displayed in every part. Who can spend a single reflection on the law of faith, without acknowledging that it is worthy of its infinitely wise Author? Whenever we see the production of any special good, it is well to know its cause or causes, that we may best know, either how to obtain such good, or to know to what the credit of such production is to be ascribed. To afford these advantages, it would seem, the Apostle so particularly points out in our text, the causes of Salvation, viz: grace and faith. In the discussion of this interesting subject, the following arrangement may be anticipated: I. A description of Salvation. II. A description of its causes. I. Salvation. This is a deliverance from all sin, and all its consequences; to be experienced partly in this, and wholly in the world to come. This we cannot better describe than by a detail of its ordinary progress through its different stages. The first instance of salvation to be recognised, is a deliverance from that blindness and insensibility, in which, the sinner with all his terrifying guilt and pollution, remains concealed from his own observation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This is a comprehensive, dynamic, and practical presentation of the biblical teaching on salvation, including discusion of the role of the Spirit, union with Christ, the gospel call, regeneration, conversion, repentance, and more.

Produced by Copenhagen's Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre, this volume, the first of an eleven-volume series, offers an insight into Kierkegaard's inner life. In addition to early drafts of his published works, it also contains his thoughts on events and philosophical and theological matters and ideas for future literary projects.

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