Ephesians 3:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

Ephesians 3:18 —

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Psalms 103:11-12
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. …
Job 11:7-9
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? …
Ephesians 1:18-23
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, …
John 15:13
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Psalms 103:17
But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;

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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,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. May be able--even still further. Greek, “May be fully able.” breadth ... length ... depth ... height--namely, the full dimensions of the spiritual temple, answering to “the fulness of God” (Ep 3:19), to which the Church, according to its capacity, ought to correspond (compare Ep 4:10, 13) as to “the fulness of Christ.” The “breadth” implies Christ’s world-wide love, embracing all men: the “len…