Ephesians 2:1 BSB — MannaFest

Ephesians 2:1

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,

KJV

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

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Commentary

7 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Ephesians 2:1-5 (420)

[The Greeks] speak of trespass as the first step toward sin. It is when a secret thought steals in, and, though we offer a measure of collusion, it does not yet drive us on to ruin.… But sin is something else. It is when the collusion is actually completed and reaches its goal.

The record, by era

The Reformation1 voice

John Calvin

1509–1564

Commentaries (1554)

But what has this to do with the kingdom of God? What has it to do with a happy life, so long as every sentiment of the mind, and every act of the will, is death? Let this, then, be held as a fixed principle, that the union of our soul with God is the true and only life; and that out of Christ we are altogether dead, because sin, the cause of death, reigns in us.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

David Brainerd

1718–1747

The Life and Diary of David Brainerd (ed. Jonathan Edwards), conviction narrative, Chapter I (1749)

I found that faith was the sovereign gift of God; that I could not get it as of myself; and could not oblige God to bestow it upon me by any of my performances.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The miserable condition of the Ephesians by nature is here in part described. Unregenerate souls are dead in trespasses and sins. All those who are in their sins, are dead in sins; yea, in trespasses and sins, which may signify all sorts of sins, habitual and actual, sins of heart and of life.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And you hath he quickened - The words “hath he quickened,” or “made to live,” are supplied, but not improperly, by our translators. The object of the apostle is to show the great power which God had evinced toward the people Eph 1:19; and to show that this was put forth in connection with the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and his exaltation to the right hand of God in heaven; see the notes at Rom 6:4-11; compare Col 2:12-13; Col 3:

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2267: “Life From the Dead” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1892)

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Καὶ	Kai	And	G2532 →
ὑμᾶς	humas	you	G4771 →
ὄντας	ontas	being	G1510 →
νεκροὺς	nekrous	dead	G3498 →
τοῖς	tois	in the	G3588 →
παραπτώμασιν	paraptōmasin	trespasses	G3900 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ταῖς	tais	in the	G3588 →
ἁμαρτίαις	hamartiais	sins	G266 →
ὑμῶν,	humōn	of you,	G4771 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 8:2
For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
leads to
- Romans 6:14
  For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
- 2 Corinthians 3:6
  And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Corinthians 3:17
  Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
- Romans 6:18
  You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
- Romans 8:10–11
  But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
Through
Ephesians 4:18
They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
leads to
- Matthew 13:15
  For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts,…
- Ephesians 2:12
  remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
Through
Colossians 2:13
When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
leads to
- Ephesians 2:5–6
  made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!