Ephesians 2:1
And so God has given life to you Gentiles also, who were once dead in your trespasses and sins,
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
In Context
Cross References
Luke 15:24"‘for this son of mine was dead and is alive again - he was lost and is found.’
John 5:21"For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, even so the Son makes whom he will alive.
John 10:10"The thief never comes except to steal and kill and destroy. I am come that they may have life, and may have it in abundance.
John 14:6Jesus answered him. "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man ever comes to the Father but by me.
1 Corinthians 15:45Thus it is written. The first man, Adam, became a living being, the last Adam, a life-giving Spirit.
Ephesians 1:19and what the surpassing greatness of his might in us who believe, as seen in the energy of that resistless might
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 →