Ephesians 2:4 BSB — MannaFest

Ephesians 2:4

But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

4 voices

Ignatius of Antioch

Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians (108)

Do ye therefore, clothing yourselves with meekness, become the imitators of His sufferings, and of His love, wherewith He loved us when He gave Himself a ransom for us, that He might cleanse us by His blood from our old ungodliness, and bestow life on us when we were almost on the point of perishing through the depravity that was in us.

The record, by era

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)

Love is his inclination to do us good considered simply as creatures; mercy respects us as apostate and as miserable creatures. Observe, God's eternal love or good-will towards his creatures is the fountain whence all his mercies vouch-safed to us proceed; and that love of God is great love, and that mercy of his is rich mercy, inexpressibly great and inexhaustibly rich.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

God, who is rich--Greek "(as) being rich in mercy." for--that is, "because of His great love." This was the special ground of God's saving us; as "rich in mercy" (compare Eph 2:7; 10:12) was the general ground. "Mercy takes away misery; love confers salvation" [BENGEL].

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ὁ	Ho	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	But	G1161 →
θεὸς	theos	God	G2316 →
πλούσιος	plousios	rich	G4145 →
ὢν	ōn	being	G1510 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ἐλέει	eleei	mercy	G1656 →
διὰ	dia	because of	G1223 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
πολλὴν	pollēn	great	G4183 →
ἀγάπην	agapēn	love	G26 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
ἣν	hēn	with which	G3739 →
ἠγάπησεν	ēgapēsen	He loved	G25 →
ἡμᾶς,	hēmas	us,	G3165 →

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 5:8
But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
leads to
- John 15:13
  Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
- John 3:16
  For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- Romans 5:6
  For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
- 1 Peter 3:18
  For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
- 1 John 4:9–10
  This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
Through
Ephesians 1:7
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:24
  He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- Romans 3:24
  and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Through
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
leads to
- Ephesians 1:7
  In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.