Ephesians 2:4

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love which He bestowed on us,

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.

5caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live with Christ--it is by grace that you have been saved--

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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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