Ephesians 3:17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,

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New International Version
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,

English Standard Version
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

New American Standard Bible
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

King James Bible
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love,

International Standard Version
and that the Messiah would make his home in your hearts through faith. Then, having been rooted and grounded in love,

American Standard Version
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

Douay-Rheims Bible
That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts; that being rooted and founded in charity,

Darby Bible Translation
that the Christ may dwell, through faith, in your hearts, being rooted and founded in love,

Young's Literal Translation
that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,

Cross References

John 14:23
Jesus answered and said to him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our stayed with him.

Romans 8:9
But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Romans 8:10
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

1 Corinthians 3:6
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know you not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except you be reprobates?

Ephesians 2:22
In whom you also are built together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Colossians 1:23
If you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

Colossians 2:7
Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:13-19 The apostle seems to be more anxious lest the believers should be discouraged and faint upon his tribulations, than for what he himself had to bear. He asks for spiritual blessings, which are the best blessings. Strength from the Spirit of God in the inner man; strength in the soul; the strength of faith, to serve God, and to do our duty. If the law of Christ is written in our hearts, and the love of Christ is shed abroad there, then Christ dwells there. Where his Spirit dwells, there he dwells. We should desire that good affections may be fixed in us. And how desirable to have a fixed sense of the love of God in Christ to our souls! How powerfully the apostle speaks of the love of Christ! The breadth shows its extent to all nations and ranks; the length, that it continues from everlasting to everlasting; the depth, its saving those who are sunk into the depths of sin and misery; the height, its raising them up to heavenly happiness and glory. Those who receive grace for grace from Christ's fulness, may be said to be filled with the fulness of God. Should not this satisfy man? Must he needs fill himself with a thousand trifles, fancying thereby to complete his happiness?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

17. That—So that.

dwell—abidingly make His abode (Joh 14:23). Where the Spirit is there Christ is (Joh 14:16, 18).

by faith—Greek, "through faith," which opens the door of the heart to Jesus (Joh 3:20). It is not enough that He be on the tongue, or flit through the brain: the heart is His proper seat [Calvin]. "You being rooted and grounded in love" (compare Eph 3:19), is in the Greek connected with this clause, not with the clause, "that ye may be able to comprehend." "Rooted" is an image from a tree; "grounded" (Greek, "founder," "having your foundations resting on"), from a building (compare Notes,, see on [2367]Eph 2:20,21; Col 1:23; 2:7). Contrast Mt 13:6, 21. "Love," the first-fruit of the Spirit, flowing from Christ's love realized in the soul, was to be the basis on which should rest their further comprehension of all the vastness of Christ's love.