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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 to you, He that heareth my word and believeth him that sent me hath life eternal, and cometh not 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 offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he quickened you together with him, having forgiven us all the offenses, (Col. 2:13)

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Ministry on This Verse

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• ⁵even us being dead in our offences he quickened with the Christ (by grace are ye saved),
⁶and raised together and seated together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus, (Eph. 2:5‑6)

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Eph. 1:19‑20• ¹⁹and what the surpassing greatness of his power toward us that believe, according to the working of the might of his strength,
²⁰which he wrought in the Christ in having raised him out of the dead, and seated [him] at his right hand in the heavenly [places], (Eph. 1:19‑20)

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John 5:25• ²⁵Verily, verily I say to you, 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 cometh not unless that he may steal and slaughter and destroy; I came that they might have life, and have 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 believeth on me, though he have died, shall live;
²⁶and every one that liveth and believeth on me shall never die. Believest thou this? (John 11:25‑26)

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John 14:6• ⁶Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father but by me. (John 14:6)

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

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1 Cor. 15:45• ⁴⁵So 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 offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he quickened you together with him, having forgiven us all the offenses, (Col. 2:13)

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Col. 3:1‑4• ¹If therefore ye were raised with Christ, seek the things above, where the Christ is seated on [the] right hand of God.
²Set your mind on the things above, not on those on the earth.
³For ye died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.
⁴When the Christ, our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also be manifested with him in glory. (Col. 3:1‑4)

dead.

Eph. 2:5• ⁵even us being dead in our offences he quickened with the Christ (by grace are ye saved), (Eph. 2:5)

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Eph. 4:18• ¹⁸being darkened in the understanding, estranged from the life of God on account of the ignorance that is in them, on account of the hardening of their heart, (Eph. 4:18)

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Eph. 5:14• ¹⁴Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise out of [the] dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee. (Eph. 5:14)

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Matt. 8:22• ²²{i}But Jesus said to him, Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.{/i} (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 be merry.
³²{i}But{/i} 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 raiseth the dead and quickeneth, so the Son also quickeneth whom he will; (John 5:21)

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2 Cor. 5:14• ¹⁴For the love of Christ constraineth us, having judged this, that if one died for all, then they all were dead; (2 Cor. 5:14)

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1 Tim. 5:6• ⁶But she that devoteth herself to pleasure is dead while living. (1 Tim. 5:6)

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1 John 3:14• ¹⁴We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not the brother abideth in death. (1 John 3:14)

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Rev. 3:1• ¹And to the angel of the church that is in Sardis write, These things saith he that hath 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.