Ephesians 5:19 Parallel Translations

by reciting psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs for your own good. Sing and make music to the Lord with your hearts.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

ASV:

speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;

BBE:

Joining with one another in holy songs of praise and of the Spirit, using your voice in songs and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

DBY:

speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and chanting with your heart to the Lord;

ERV:

speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;

WEY:

but drink deeply of God's Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and offer praise in your hearts to the Lord.

WBS:

Speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

WEB:

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

YLT:

speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

Ephesians 5:19 Cross References

XREF:

Acts 16:25 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;

1 Corinthians 14:15 What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also.

1 Corinthians 14:26 What is the outcome then, brethren? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your {l} heart to the Lord;
(l) With an earnest affection of the heart, and not with the tongue only.

PNT:

5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms. Under the influence of the Spirit when together you will sing psalms, such as those of the psalmist.
And hymns. Songs of praise.
And spiritual songs. Songs which express spiritual emotions. We find Christian hymns in the church at a very early period.
Singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. While the lips sing, the heart must join in the melody by an uplifting to God. Too much singing in the churches is only of the lips.

WES:

5:19 Speaking to each other - By the Spirit. In the Psalms - Of David. And hymns - Of praise. And spiritual songs - On any divine subject. By there being no inspired songs, peculiarly adapted to the Christian dispensation, as there were to the Jewish, it is evident that the promise of the Holy Ghost to believers, in the last days, was by his larger effusion to supply the lack of it. Singing with your hearts - As well as your voice. To the Lord - Jesus, who searcheth the heart.

MHC:

5:15-21 Another remedy against sin, is care, or caution, it being impossible else to maintain purity of heart and life. Time is a talent given us by God, and it is misspent and lost when not employed according to his design. If we have lost our time heretofore, we must double our diligence for the future. Of that time which thousands on a dying bed would gladly redeem at the price of the whole world, how little do men think, and to what trifles they daily sacrifice it! People are very apt to complain of bad times; it were well if that stirred them more to redeem time. Be not unwise. Ignorance of our duty, and neglect of our souls, show the greatest folly. Drunkenness is a sin that never goes alone, but carries men into other evils; it is a sin very provoking to God. The drunkard holds out to his family and to the world the sad spectacle of a sinner hardened beyond what is common, and hastening to perdition. When afflicted or weary, let us not seek to raise our spirits by strong drink, which is hateful and hurtful, and only ends in making sorrows more felt. But by fervent prayer let us seek to be filled with the Spirit, and to avoid whatever may grieve our gracious Comforter. All God's people have reason to sing for joy. Though we are not always singing, we should be always giving thanks; we should never want disposition for this duty, as we never want matter for it, through the whole course of our lives. Always, even in trials and afflictions, and for all things; being satisfied of their loving intent, and good tendency. God keeps believers from sinning against him, and engages them to submit one to another in all he has commanded, to promote his glory, and to fulfil their duties to each other.

CONC:

Addressing Chanting Deeply Drink God's Heart Hearts Holy Hymns Joining Making Melody Music Offer Praise Psalms Sing Singing Songs Speak Speaking Spirit Spiritual Using Voice Yourselves

Addressing Deeply Drink God's Heart Hearts Holy Hymns Joining Making Melody Music Offer Praise Praises Psalms Sing Singing Songs Speak Speaking Spirit Spiritual Using Voice Yourselves

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