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(It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/ephesians/2.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/ephesians/2.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/ephesians/2.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />made <i>us</i> alive with Christ even we being dead in trespasses--by grace you are saved--<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/ephesians/2.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/ephesians/2.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/ephesians/2.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />even when we were dead in our wrongdoings, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/ephesians/2.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/ephesians/2.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/ephesians/2.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/ephesians/2.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />even when we were [spiritually] dead <i>and</i> separated from Him because of our sins, He made us [spiritually] alive together with Christ (for by His grace—His undeserved favor and mercy—you have been saved from God’s judgment).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/ephesians/2.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />made us alive with Christ even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/ephesians/2.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ephesians/2.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ephesians/2.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />even when we were dead through our trespasses, quickened us together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/ephesians/2.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />We were dead because of our failures, but he made us alive together with Christ. (It is God's kindness that saved you.) <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/ephesians/2.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />that while we were spiritually dead in our disobedience he brought us to life with Christ. It is by God's grace that you have been saved. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/ephesians/2.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />even when we were dead because of our offenses, made us alive together with the Messiah (by grace you have been saved), <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/ephesians/2.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/ephesians/2.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you are saved!--<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/ephesians/2.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ephesians/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Even when we were dead in sins, hath made us alive together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/ephesians/2.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live with Christ--it is by grace that you have been saved--<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ephesians/2.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/ephesians/2.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />even being dead in the trespasses, made us alive together with the Christ (by grace you are saved),<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/ephesians/2.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />made <i>us</i> alive with Christ even we being dead in trespasses--by grace you are saved--<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ephesians/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/ephesians/2.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And we being dead in faults, he made alive together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved;)<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ephesians/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together in Christ, (by whose grace you are saved,) <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/ephesians/2.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />even when we were dead in our sins, has enlivened us together in Christ, by whose grace you have been saved.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ephesians/2.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />even when we were dead in our transgressions, brought us to life with Christ (by grace you have been saved),<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ephesians/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/ephesians/2.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Even when we were dead in our sins, has made us live together with Christ, by whose grace we are saved;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/aramaic-plain-english/ephesians/2.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a></span><br />When we were dead in our sins, he gave us life together with The Messiah, and by his grace he saved us.<div class="vheading2"><b>NT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/anderson/ephesians/2.htm">Anderson New Testament</a></span><br />made alive with Christ even us, being dead to our offenses, (by grace you are saved,)<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/godbey/ephesians/2.htm">Godbey New Testament</a></span><br />created life in us in Christ, who were dead in trespasses, by grace you have been saved,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/haweis/ephesians/2.htm">Haweis New Testament</a></span><br />though we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved,)<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/mace/ephesians/2.htm">Mace New Testament</a></span><br />did raise us all, who were in that deadly state of sin, to life by Christ, for by grace ye are saved:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/ephesians/2.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live with Christ--it is by grace that you have been saved--<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worrell/ephesians/2.htm">Worrell New Testament</a></span><br />even when we were dead in <i>our offenses</i>, made us alive with Christ (by grace ye have been saved),<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worsley/ephesians/2.htm">Worsley New Testament</a></span><br />hath made us alive in Christ, even when we were dead in trespasses, (<i>for</i> by grace ye are saved) and hath raised <i>us</i> up together,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/ephesians/2-5.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AfeSHen3sAQ?start=237" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/ephesians/2.htm">Alive with Christ</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">4</span>But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, <span class="reftext">5</span><span class="highl"><a href="/greek/4806.htm" title="4806: synezōopoiēsen (V-AIA-3S) -- To make alive together with. From sun and zoopoieo; to reanimate.">made us alive with</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tō (Art-DMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/5547.htm" title="5547: Christō (N-DMS) -- Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.">Christ</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">even when</a> <a href="/greek/1473.htm" title="1473: hēmas (PPro-A1P) -- I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.">we</a> <a href="/greek/1510.htm" title="1510: ontas (V-PPA-AMP) -- I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.">were</a> <a href="/greek/3498.htm" title="3498: nekrous (Adj-AMP) -- (a) adj: dead, lifeless, subject to death, mortal, (b) noun: a dead body, a corpse. From an apparently primary nekus; dead.">dead</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tois (Art-DNP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">in our</a> <a href="/greek/3900.htm" title="3900: paraptōmasin (N-DNP) -- A falling away, lapse, slip, false step, trespass, sin. From parapipto; a side-slip, i.e. error or transgression.">trespasses.</a> <a href="/greek/5485.htm" title="5485: chariti (N-DFS) -- From chairo; graciousness, of manner or act.">It is by grace</a> <a href="/greek/1510.htm" title="1510: este (V-PIA-2P) -- I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.">you have been</a> <a href="/greek/4982.htm" title="4982: sesōsmenoi (V-RPM/P-NMP) -- To save, heal, preserve, rescue. From a primary sos; to save, i.e. Deliver or protect.">saved!</a> </span> <span class="reftext">6</span>And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/5-8.htm">Romans 5:8</a></span><br />But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/colossians/2-13.htm">Colossians 2:13</a></span><br />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,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/titus/3-5.htm">Titus 3:5</a></span><br />He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/3-16.htm">John 3:16</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/5-17.htm">2 Corinthians 5:17</a></span><br />Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/6-4.htm">Romans 6:4</a></span><br />We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/2-20.htm">Galatians 2:20</a></span><br />I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_peter/3-18.htm">1 Peter 3:18</a></span><br />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,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_john/4-9.htm">1 John 4:9-10</a></span><br />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. / And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/8-10.htm">Romans 8:10-11</a></span><br />But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. / And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-22.htm">1 Corinthians 15:22</a></span><br />For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/5-24.htm">John 5:24</a></span><br />Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_timothy/1-9.htm">2 Timothy 1:9</a></span><br />He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/53-5.htm">Isaiah 53:5</a></span><br />But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/36-26.htm">Ezekiel 36:26-27</a></span><br />I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. / And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Even when we were dead in sins, has quickened us together with Christ, (by grace you are saved;)</p><p class="hdg">dead.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ephesians/2-1.htm">Ephesians 2:1</a></b></br> And you <i>hath he quickened</i>, who were dead in trespasses and sins;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/romans/5-6.htm">Romans 5:6,8,10</a></b></br> For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly… </p><p class="hdg">quickened.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ephesians/2-1.htm">Ephesians 2:1</a></b></br> And you <i>hath he quickened</i>, who were dead in trespasses and sins;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ephesians/5-14.htm">Ephesians 5:14</a></b></br> Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/john/5-21.htm">John 5:21</a></b></br> For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth <i>them</i>; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.</p><p class="hdg">grace ye.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ephesians/2-8.htm">Ephesians 2:8</a></b></br> For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: <i>it is</i> the gift of God:</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/acts/15-11.htm">Acts 15:11</a></b></br> But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/romans/3-24.htm">Romans 3:24</a></b></br> Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ephesians/2-1.htm">Alive</a> <a href="/ephesians/1-8.htm">Caused</a> <a href="/ephesians/1-20.htm">Christ</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-1.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/ephesians/1-8.htm">Grace</a> <a href="/ephesians/1-12.htm">Live</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-1.htm">Offences</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-1.htm">Quickened</a> <a href="/ephesians/1-13.htm">Salvation</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/2-15.htm">Saved</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-1.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/ephesians/1-10.htm">Together</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-1.htm">Transgressions</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-1.htm">Trespasses</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/colossians/2-13.htm">Alive</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-34.htm">Caused</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-6.htm">Christ</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-6.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-7.htm">Grace</a> <a href="/ephesians/4-1.htm">Live</a> <a href="/colossians/2-13.htm">Offences</a> <a href="/colossians/2-13.htm">Quickened</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-8.htm">Salvation</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-8.htm">Saved</a> <a href="/ephesians/5-6.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-6.htm">Together</a> <a href="/colossians/2-13.htm">Transgressions</a> <a href="/colossians/2-13.htm">Trespasses</a><div class="vheading2">Ephesians 2</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ephesians/2-1.htm">By comparing what we were by nature, with what we are by grace,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ephesians/2-10.htm">he declares that we are made for good works: and being brought near by Christ, </a></span><br><span class="reftext">19. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ephesians/2-19.htm">should not live as Gentiles and foreigners, but as citizens with the saints, and the family of God.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The Greek word for "made alive" is "συνεζωοποίησεν" (synezōopoiēsen), which combines "syn" (together with) and "zōopoieō" (to make alive). This indicates a union with Christ in His resurrection life. Historically, this reflects the early Christian belief in the resurrection as a pivotal event that not only validated Jesus' divinity but also provided believers with new life. Theologically, it emphasizes that this new life is not achieved by human effort but is a divine act of God, aligning with the conservative Christian view that salvation is a work of God alone.<p><b>even when we were dead in our trespasses</b><br />The word "dead" here is translated from the Greek "νεκρούς" (nekrous), meaning lifeless or spiritually dead. This underscores the total inability of humans to attain righteousness on their own. "Trespasses" comes from "παραπτώμασιν" (paraptōmasin), which refers to false steps or deviations from the right path. Historically, this reflects the Jewish understanding of sin as a deviation from God's law. Theologically, it highlights the conservative Christian belief in the doctrine of total depravity, which asserts that sin affects all parts of a person, rendering them spiritually dead and in need of divine intervention.<p><b>It is by grace you have been saved!</b><br />"Grace" is translated from the Greek "χάριτι" (chariti), which signifies unmerited favor or kindness. This is a cornerstone of Christian theology, emphasizing that salvation is a gift from God, not a result of human works. The phrase "you have been saved" uses the perfect tense in Greek, "σεσῳσμένοι" (sesōsmenoi), indicating a completed action with ongoing effects. This aligns with the conservative Christian perspective that salvation is both a past event and a present reality, secured by Christ's sacrifice and sustained by God's grace. Historically, this reflects the early church's emphasis on grace as the foundation of the Christian faith, distinguishing it from other religious systems that emphasized works-based righteousness.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ephesians/2.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(5) <span class= "bld">Even when we were</span> <span class= "bld">dead in sins.</span>--These words should be connected, not with "loved us," but with "hath quickened," or rather, <span class= "ital">quickened.</span> He brought life out of spiritual death.<p>(5, 6) The thought in these verses follows exactly the same course as in <a href="/context/ephesians/1-19.htm" title="And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,">Ephesians 1:19-20</a>. There the type and earnest of the working of God's mighty power are placed in the resurrection, the ascension, the glorification of Christ Himself in His human nature. Here what is there implied is worked out--(1) All Christians are declared to be quickened (or, <span class= "ital">risen again</span>) to spiritual life with Christ, according to His promise, "Because I live, ye shall live also" (<a href="/john/14-19.htm" title="Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you shall live also.">John 14:19</a>). (See the exact parallel in <a href="/colossians/2-13.htm" title=" And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, has he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;">Colossians 2:13</a>.) But there is a promise even beyond this: "I am the life: whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die" (<a href="/john/11-25.htm" title="Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:">John 11:25</a>; comp. also <a href="/john/5-24.htm" title="Truly, truly, I say to you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death to life.">John 5:24</a>; <a href="/john/17-2.htm" title="As you have given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as you have given him.">John 17:2</a>). Hence, even more emphatically, and in full accordance with this latter promise, we have in <a href="/colossians/3-4.htm" title=" When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.">Colossians 3:4</a>, "Christ who is our life;" as in <a href="/context/2_corinthians/4-10.htm" title="Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.">2Corinthians 4:10-11</a>, "The life of Jesus is made manifest in us." What this "life eternal" is He Himself declares (<a href="/john/17-3.htm" title="And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.">John 17:3</a>)--"to know the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom He has sent." (2) Next, this partaking of the life of Christ is brought out in two striking forms--as a partaking, not only of His resurrection (as in <a href="/romans/6-5.htm" title="For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:">Romans 6:5</a>; <a href="/context/1_corinthians/15-20.htm" title="But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.">1Corinthians 15:20-22</a>; <a href="/philippians/3-11.htm" title="If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.">Philippians 3:11</a>), but also (in a phase of thought peculiar to these Epistles) of His ascension "to the heavenly places." This is "in Christ Jesus," in virtue of a personal and individual union with Christ. It implies blessings, both present and future, or rather one blessing, of which we have the earnest now and the fulness hereafter--for the resurrection and ascension of Christ are even now the perfection and glorification of humanity in Him. (3) So far as we are really and vitally His members, such perfection and glorification are ours now, by His intercession (that is, His continued mediation for us in heaven) and by His indwelling in us by the Spirit on earth. The proof of partaking His resurrection is "newness of life," "death unto sin, and new birth unto righteousness" (<a href="/context/romans/6-5.htm" title="For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:">Romans 6:5-11</a>), which is in <a href="/colossians/3-12.htm" title=" Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;">Colossians 3:12</a> expressly connected with the entrance upon unity with Christ in baptism. The proof of having "our life hid in Christ at the right hand of God," is "the setting our affection on things above" (<a href="/colossians/3-1.htm" title=" If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God.">Colossians 3:1</a>), by which "in heart and mind we thither ascend, and with Him continually dwell." (4) These proofs are seen only in measure here. Through the change which we call death, we pass at once to a still higher stage of life, by fuller union with Christ (<a href="/context/2_corinthians/5-6.htm" title="Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:">2Corinthians 5:6-8</a>), and at the great day we shall have both in perfection--perfect newness of life in "likeness to Him" (<a href="/1_john/3-2.htm" title="Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.">1John 3:2</a>), and perfect glorification in Him in that communion with God which is heaven (<a href="/john/17-5.htm" title="And now, O Father, glorify you me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world was.">John 17:5</a>; <a href="/john/17-10.htm" title="And all my are yours, and your are mine; and I am glorified in them.">John 17:10</a>; <a href="/john/17-24.htm" title="Father, I will that they also, whom you have given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which you have given me: for you loved me before the foundation of the world.">John 17:24</a>). The one thing which St. Paul does not attribute to us is that which is His alone--the place "at the right hand of the Father." . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ephesians/2.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 5.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Even when we were dead in our sins.</span> Repeated from ver. 1, in order to set in its true light the declaration that follows of what God did for us to make more emphatic the free and sovereign mercy of God. Though sin is the abominable thing which he hates, loathsome to him in the last degree, he did not turn from us when we were immersed in it; nor did he wait till we began to move towards him: he began to influence us even when we were dead. Made us alive together with Christ (<span class="greek">συνεζωοποίησε τῷ Ξριστῷ</span>). <span class="cmt_word">Made us alive with the life which is in Christ and which flows from Christ.</span> A parallel is run between the way in which God's power operated on the <span class="accented">body</span> of Christ, and the way in which it operates on the <span class="accented">souls</span> of believers in him in respect of <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> the quickening; <p><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> the raising up from the grave; <p><span class="note_emph">(3)</span> the seating of them in heavenly places. . . . <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/ephesians/2-5.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div><span class="word">made [us] alive with</span><br /><span class="grk">συνεζωοποίησεν</span> <span class="translit">(synezōopoiēsen)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_4806.htm">Strong's 4806: </a> </span><span class="str2">To make alive together with. From sun and zoopoieo; to reanimate.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Christ,</span><br /><span class="grk">Χριστῷ</span> <span class="translit">(Christō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Dative Masculine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_5547.htm">Strong's 5547: </a> </span><span class="str2">Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">even when</span><br /><span class="grk">καὶ</span> <span class="translit">(kai)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> </span><span class="str2">And, even, also, namely. </span><br /><br /><span class="word">we</span><br /><span class="grk">ἡμᾶς</span> <span class="translit">(hēmas)</span><br /><span class="parse">Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1473.htm">Strong's 1473: </a> </span><span class="str2">I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">were</span><br /><span class="grk">ὄντας</span> <span class="translit">(ontas)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1510.htm">Strong's 1510: </a> </span><span class="str2">I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">dead</span><br /><span class="grk">νεκροὺς</span> <span class="translit">(nekrous)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3498.htm">Strong's 3498: </a> </span><span class="str2">(a) adj: dead, lifeless, subject to death, mortal, (b) noun: a dead body, a corpse. From an apparently primary nekus; dead.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in our</span><br /><span class="grk">τοῖς</span> <span class="translit">(tois)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article - Dative Neuter Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">trespasses.</span><br /><span class="grk">παραπτώμασιν</span> <span class="translit">(paraptōmasin)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Dative Neuter Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3900.htm">Strong's 3900: </a> </span><span class="str2">A falling away, lapse, slip, false step, trespass, sin. From parapipto; a side-slip, i.e. error or transgression.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[It is] by grace</span><br /><span class="grk">χάριτί</span> <span class="translit">(chariti)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Dative Feminine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_5485.htm">Strong's 5485: </a> </span><span class="str2">From chairo; graciousness, of manner or act.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you have been</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐστε</span> <span class="translit">(este)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1510.htm">Strong's 1510: </a> </span><span class="str2">I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">saved!</span><br /><span class="grk">σεσῳσμένοι</span> <span class="translit">(sesōsmenoi)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Perfect Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_4982.htm">Strong's 4982: </a> </span><span class="str2">To save, heal, preserve, rescue. 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