Ephesians 2:4

But God who is rich in his mercies, because of the great love with which he loved us,

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

In Context

3in which deeds we also, formerly, were conversant, in the cravings of our flesh; and we did the pleasure of our flesh, and of our mind, and were altogether the children of wrath, like the rest.

5when we were dead in our sins, quickened us with the Messiah, and rescued us by his grace;

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Matthew Henry on Ephesians 2:2-4

State of the Ephesians by Nature. ( a. d. 61.) 1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. The miserable condition… Read the whole commentary →

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