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Ephesians 2

Eph. 2:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

John 5:24• ²⁴Verily, verily, I say unto you, that he that hears my word, and believes him that has sent me, has life eternal, and does not come into judgment, but is passed out of death into life. (John 5:24)

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Col. 2:13• ¹³And you, being dead in offences and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having forgiven us all the offences; (Col. 2:13)

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1-9: By comparing what we were by nature, with what we are by grace,

10-22: he declares that we are made for good works:

and being brought near by Christ, should not live as Gentiles and foreigners, as in time past, but as citizens with the saints, and the family of God.

you.

Eph. 2:5‑6• ⁵(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)
⁶and has raised us up together, and has made us sit down together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus, (Eph. 2:5‑6)

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Eph. 1:19‑20• ¹⁹and what the surpassing greatness of his power towards us who believe, according to the working of the might of his strength,
²⁰in which he wrought in the Christ in raising him from among the dead, and he set him down at his right hand in the heavenlies, (Eph. 1:19‑20)

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John 5:25• ²⁵Verily, verily, I say unto you, that an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that have heard shall live. (John 5:25)

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John 10:10• ¹⁰The thief comes not but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I am come that they might have life, and might have it abundantly. (John 10:10)

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John 11:25‑26• ²⁵Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believes on me, though he have died, shall live;
²⁶and every one who lives and believes on me shall never die. Believest thou this? (John 11:25‑26)

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John 14:6• ⁶Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father unless by me. (John 14:6)

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Rom. 8:2• ²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death. (Rom. 8:2)

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1 Cor. 15:45• ⁴⁵Thus also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a quickening spirit. (1 Cor. 15:45)

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Col. 2:13• ¹³And you, being dead in offences and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having forgiven us all the offences; (Col. 2:13)

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Col. 3:1‑4• ¹If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things which are above, where the Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God:
²have your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth;
³for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.
⁴When the Christ is manifested who is our life, then shall *ye* also be manifested with him in glory. (Col. 3:1‑4)

dead.

Eph. 2:5• ⁵(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,) (Eph. 2:5)

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Eph. 4:18• ¹⁸being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts, (Eph. 4:18)

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Eph. 5:14• ¹⁴Wherefore he says, Wake up, thou that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee. (Eph. 5:14)

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Matt. 8:22• ²²But Jesus said to him, Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead. (Matt. 8:22)

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Luke 15:24,32• ²⁴for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry.
³²But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found. (Luke 15:24,32)

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John 5:21• ²¹For even as the Father raises the dead and quickens them, thus the Son also quickens whom he will: (John 5:21)

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2 Cor. 5:14• ¹⁴For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died; (2 Cor. 5:14)

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1 Tim. 5:6• ⁶But she that lives in habits of self-indulgence is dead while living. (1 Tim. 5:6)

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1 John 3:14• ¹⁴*We* know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. (1 John 3:14)

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Rev. 3:1• ¹And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he that has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. (Rev. 3:1)

• In chapter 2 the operation of the power of God on earth, for the purpose of bringing souls into the enjoyment of their heavenly privileges, and thus of forming the assembly here below, is presented, rather than the unfolding of the privileges themselves, and consequently that of the counsels of God. It is not even these counsels; it is the grace and the power which work for their fulfillment. (“Ephesians 2” by J.N. Darby)

• In the Ephesians, the Spirit does not describe the life of the old man in sin. God and His own work are everything. (“Ephesians 2” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

and *you*, being dead in your offences and sins—

W. Kelly Translation

And you, being deada in your offences and your sins,

WK Translation Notes

The word "dead" (nekrous) used here signifies properly "corpse." It is not dying as a punishment for them, but a state in which they were. Then God creates again. They are viewed not as dying by or for their sins. It is not (apothanete) but being dead (nekrous) He has quickened. The first work in the corpse is quickening with Christ, God’s act. In Romans and Colossians, it is being alive in sin, ye have died (apothanete) in Christ. In Ephesians, being dead (nekroi), we have been quickened with Him. It is a new creation. It does not seem to me there can be the smallest doubt of what is the right translation.