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NASB | Ephesians 6:4 ¶ Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 6:4 ¶ Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger [do not exasperate them to the point of resentment with demands that are trivial or unreasonable or humiliating or abusive; nor by showing favoritism or indifference to any of them], but bring them up [tenderly, with lovingkindness] in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. |
Bible Question: Is 2cor6:1 refering to getting saved or taking advantage of Grace like in Romans6:1 |
Bible Answer: While I am one who believes that we as Christians retain our free will to renounce our commitment to Christ (which I take to be the premise of the first phrase of your question), I do not think this passage is addressing that teaching. The word which the NASB translates as "in vain" here is "kenos". The NASB translates it in 10 of 18 occurrences as "in vain" but also as "empty", "empty-handed", "foolish" and "futile". I think the clear thrust is useless or ineffective. But is Paul speaking of rendering the grace of God useless or ineffective as to one's salvation or in the living of our lives? Context to the rescue -- again. While the Greek does not provide our sentence punctuation (and therefore different translations punctuate the sentences differently), the NASB wisely (in my view) treats 6:1-10 as a single sentence! Thus, we have to read all the way to verse 9 to see the subject and verb ("we live"). So, verse 1 is a lead-in to a lengthy adverbial (descriptive) clause describing the circumstances in which we should apply the grace of God and make it 'useful'. I think we could profitably make our own lists. For me, I might add, "in traffic jams, in lines at airports, etc". I think the context of verse 1 shows Paul to be cautioning us not to render the grace of God 'useless' or 'ineffective' in our daily lives as Christians. |
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