Ephesians 2:1
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
In Context
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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, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.
John 10:10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
1 Corinthians 15:45So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
Ephesians 1:19and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 2:1
This chapter contains an account, I. Of the miserable condition of these Ephesians by nature ( ver. 1-3 ) and again, ver. 11, 12 . II. Of the glorious change that was wrought in them by converting grace ( ver. 4-10 ) and again, ver. 13 . III. Of the great and mighty privileges that both converted Jews and Gentiles receive from Christ, ver. 14-22 . The apostle endeavours to affect them with a due sense of the wonderful change which divine grace had wrought in them; and this is very applicable to that great change… Read the whole commentary →