Ephesianschapter 2

22 verses · ASV

This chapter sends 544 cross-references outward and receives 743 — heaviest partner: Romans.

Chapter summary

You who were dead in trespasses and sins, walking according to the prince of the power of the air — God, who is rich in mercy, hath quickened us together with Christ. By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Now in Christ Jesus, ye who were far off are made nigh by the blood. Christ is our peace, who hath broken down the middle wall. Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Henry marks the chapter as the great Scriptural portrait of salvation.

Drafted from Matthew Henry, Calvin, Gill, Clarke, JFB, and Barnes.

Context

Epistle · Paul — see the Ephesians overview for the book's full setting.

1 And youdid he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,

2 wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;

3 among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:—

4 but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),

6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus:

7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus:

8 for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

9 not of works, that no man should glory.