Ephesians 3:15
from whom all paternity in heaven and on earth takes its name.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
In Context
14By reason of this grace, I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Cross References
Isaiah 65:15And you will leave behind your name to my elect as a curse. And the Lord God will put you to death, and he will call his servants by another name.
Acts 11:26And they were conversing there in the Church for an entire year. And they taught such a great multitude, that it was at Antioch that the disciples were first known by the name of Christian.
Ephesians 1:21above every principality and power and virtue and dominion, and above every name that is given, not only in this age, but even in the future age.
Colossians 1:20and that, through him, all things be reconciled to himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, for the things that are on earth, as well as the things that are in heaven.
Revelation 3:12Whoever prevails, I will set him as a column in the temple of my God, and he shall not depart from it anymore. And I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem that descends out of heaven from my God, and my new name.
Revelation 7:4And I heard the number of those who were sealed: one hundred and forty-four thousand sealed, out of every tribe of the sons of Israel.
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 3:15-21
The Apostle's Prayer. ( a. d. 61.) 14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love of… Read the whole commentary →