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Ephesians 2:1
1As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
Ephesians 2:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
- English Standard Version (ESV)And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
- New King James Version (NKJV)And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
- New Living Translation (NLT)Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins.
Context of Ephesians 2:1
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.
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Cross-references for Ephesians 2:1
- Ephesians 2:5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
- Ephesians 1:19and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength
- John 5:25Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.
- John 10:10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
- John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;
- John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
- Romans 8:2because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
- 1 Corinthians 15:45So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
- Colossians 2:13When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,
- Colossians 3:1Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
- Ephesians 4:18They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
- Ephesians 5:14This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
- Matthew 8:22But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
- Luke 15:24For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.
- John 5:21For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
Commentaries on Ephesians 2:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1And you hath he quickened - This chapter should not have been separated from the preceding, with which it is most intimately connected. As Christ fills the whole body of Christian believers with his fullness, ( Ephesians 1:23;), so had he dealt with the converted Ephesians, who before were dead in trespasses, and dead in sins. Death is often used by all writers, and in all nations, to express a state of extreme misery. The Ephesians, by trespassing and…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1And you hath he quickened - The words “hath he quickened,” or “made to live,” are supplied, but not improperly, by our translators. The object of the apostle is to show the great power which God had evinced toward the people Ephesians 1:19; and to show that this was put forth in connection with the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and his exaltation to the right hand of God in heaven; see the notes at Romans 6:4-11; compare Colossians 2:12-13; Colossians…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1The riches of God's grace towards men, shown from their deplorable state by nature, and the happy change Divine grace makes in them. (1-10) The Ephesians called to reflect on their state of heathenism. (11-13) And the privileges and blessings of the gospel. (14-22) Verses 1-10 Sin is the death of the soul. A man dead in trespasses and sins has no desire for spiritual pleasures. When we look upon a corpse, it gives an awful feeling. A never-dying spirit is…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-3Paul describes how the people he was writing to were in a terrible spiritual condition before they believed in Jesus Christ. He says they were like dead people in their relationship with God (see 2:5; Colossians 2:13). This spiritual death happened because of their disobedience and sins. They regularly did things that went against God's will and broke his commands. Paul explains that their sinful actions were influenced by the power of the devil. The…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-221. And you--"You also," among those who have experienced His mighty power in enabling them to believe (Ep 1:19-23). hath he quickened--supplied from the Greek (Ep 2:5). dead--spiritually. (Col 2:13). A living corpse: without the gracious presence of God's Spirit in the soul, and so unable to think, will, or do aught that is holy. in trespasses ... sins--in them, as the element in which the unbeliever is, and through which he is dead to the true life. Sin…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ephesians 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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