Ephesians 2:5
even while we were dead in our trespasses, made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved).
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
In Context
4But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
Cross References
John 5:21"For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, even so the Son makes whom he will alive.
Acts 15:11"On the contrary we believe that it is by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ that we and they shall be saved."
Romans 4:16This is why righteousness is of faith, that it may be a free gift; so that the promise stands firm to all Abraham’s posterity; not to his children of his faith. For in the sight of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls into being that which is not, Abraham is the father of us all both Jews and Gentiles,
Romans 5:8But God gives proof of his love to us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 8:2for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.
Romans 16:20The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 2:5-11
The Change Wrought in the Ephesians. ( a. d. 61.) 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7 That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is… Read the whole commentary →