14For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; …
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.
Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-21)We now come to the second part of this chapter, which contains Paul’s devout and affectionate prayer to God for his beloved Ephesians.— For this cause . This may be referred either to the immediately Eph. 3:13; That you faint not , etc., or, rather, the apostle is here resuming what he began at the Eph. 3:1; from which he digressed in those which are interposed. Observe, I. To whom he prays—to God…
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