Ephesians Chapter 5 verse 15 Holy Bible
Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
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Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;
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See therefore how ye walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise,
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See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
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Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
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See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - Take heed then how ye walk strictly. The construction is somewhat peculiar, combining two ideas - see that you walk strictly, but consider well the kind of strictness. Do not walk loosely, without fixed principles of action; but make sure that your rules are of the true kind. Many are strict who are not wisely strict; they have rules, but not good rules. Not as unwise, but as wise. This rendering brings out the force of ἄσοφοι and σοφυὶ: "fools" (A.V.) is rather strong, for it is not utter folly that is reproved, but easy-mindedness, want of earnest consideration in a matter so infinitely vital, so as to know what is truly best.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) See then that ye walk (properly, how ye walk) circumspectly.--The word rendered "circumspectly" is properly strictly, or accurately--generally used of intellectual accuracy or thoroughness (as in Matthew 2:8; Luke 1:3; Acts 18:25; Acts 18:28; 1Thessalonians 5:2); only here and in Acts 26:5 ("the straitest sect of our religion") of moral strictness. The idea, therefore, is not of looking round watchfully against dangers, but of "seeing," that is, being careful, "how we walk strictly;" of finding out the clear line of right, and then keeping to it strictly, so as not "to run uncertainly." In the corresponding passage in the Colossian Epistle (Colossians 4:5) a similar admonition has especial reference "to those without," and bids us have a resolute unity of aim, a distinct religious profession, amidst all the bewildering temptations of the world. Here it is more general; it bids men not to trust wholly to general rightness of heart, in which "the spirit is willing," but to be watchful over themselves, and to be a law to themselves, "because the flesh is weak." . . .
