Ephesians 3:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Ephesians 3:19 —

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Cross-References

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Ephesians 1:23
Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Colossians 2:9-10
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. …
Colossians 1:10
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
1 John 4:9-14
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. …
2 Corinthians 5:14
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

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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. 19)

19. passeth--surpasseth, exceeds. The paradox “to know ... which passeth knowledge,” implies that when he says “know,” he does not mean that we can adequately know; all we know is, that His love exceeds far our knowledge of it, and with even our fresh accessions of knowledge hereafter, will still exceed them. Even as God’s power exceeds our thoughts (Ep 3:20). filled with--rather, as Greek, “fille…