Ephesians 2:1
You yourselves were once dead because of your offenses and sins.
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In The King James Version
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
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Luke 15:24for here is my son who was dead, and is alive again, was lost, and is found.’ So they began making merry.
John 5:21For, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he pleases.
John 10:10The thief comes only to steal, to kill, and to destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it in greater fullness.
John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one ever comes to the Father except through me.
1 Corinthians 15:45That is what is meant by the words – ‘Adam, the first man, became a human being’; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Ephesians 1:19and the transcendent greatness of the power which he is able to exercise in dealing with us who believe in him.
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 →