Ephesians 2:5 BSB — MannaFest

Ephesians 2:5

made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

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Commentary

4 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Even when we were dead in sins - notes, Eph 2:1; compare Rom 5:8. The construction here is, “God, who is rich in mercy, on account of the great love which he bare unto us, even being dead in sin, hath quickened us,” etc. It does not mean that he quickened us when we were dead in sin, but that he loved us then, and made provision for our salvation. It was love to the children of wrath; love to those who had no love to return to him; love to the alienated and the lost.

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.

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

He hath quickened us together with Christ - In conformity to him, and by virtue of our union with him. By grace ye are saved - Grace is both the beginning and end. The apostle speaks indifferently either in the first or second person; the Jews and gentiles being in the same circumstance, both by nature and by grace.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

What God wrought in Christ, He wrought (by the very fact) in all united to Christ, and one with Him. by grace ye are saved--Greek, "Ye are in a saved state." Not merely "ye are being saved," but ye "are passed from death unto life" (Joh 5:24). Salvation is to the Christian not a thing to be waited for hereafter, but already realized (1Jo 3:14).

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	even	G2532 →
ὄντας	ontas	being	G1510 →
ἡμᾶς	hēmas	we	G3165 →
νεκροὺς	nekrous	dead	G3498 →
τοῖς	tois	<the>	G3588 →
παραπτώμασιν	paraptōmasin	in trespasses	G3900 →
συνεζωοποίησεν	sunezōopoiēsen	made [us] alive with	G4806 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
Χριστῷ,	Christō	Christ —	G5547 →
χάριτί	chariti	by grace	G5485 →
ἐστε	este	you are	G1510 →
σεσῳσμένοι.	sesōsmenoi	saved —.	G4982 →

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
Ephesians 2:8
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,
leads to
- Romans 3:22–26
  And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
- Romans 4:16
  Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who…
- John 1:12–13
  But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
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 3:16
  By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.