Ephesians 3:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

Ephesians 3:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galatians 3:26-29
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. …
Romans 8:15-17
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. …
Galatians 3:14
That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
1 John 2:25
And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
1 John 1:3
That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-13)

Here we have the account which Paul gives the Ephesians concerning himself, as he was appointed by God the apostle of the Gentiles. I. We may observe that he acquaints them with the tribulations and sufferings which he endured in the discharge of that office, Eph. 3:1. The first clause refers to the preceding chapter, and may be understood either of these two ways:—1. “ For this cause ,—for having…

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

(vv. 6)

6. Translate, “That the Gentiles are,” &c. “and fellow members of the same body, and fellow partakers of the (so the oldest manuscripts read, not ‘His’) promise, in Christ Jesus (added in the oldest manuscripts), through the Gospel.” It is “in Christ Jesus” that they are made “fellow heirs” in the inheritance of God: “of the same body” under the Head, Christ Jesus; and “fellow partakers of the pro…