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Eph. 2:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Evena when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (ηby graceb ye are saved;)

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Rom. 5:6,8,10• ⁶for we being still without strength, in the due time Christ has died for the ungodly.
⁸but God commends *his* love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.
¹⁰For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in the power of his life. (Rom. 5:6,8,10)

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by whose.

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Rom. 3:24• ²⁴being justified freely by his grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; (Rom. 3:24)

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dead.

Eph. 2:1• ¹and *you*, being dead in your offences and sins-- (Eph. 2:1)

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Rom. 5:6,8,10• ⁶for we being still without strength, in the due time Christ has died for the ungodly.
⁸but God commends *his* love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.
¹⁰For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in the power of his life. (Rom. 5:6,8,10)

quickened.

Eph. 2:1• ¹and *you*, being dead in your offences and sins-- (Eph. 2:1)

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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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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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John 6:63• ⁶³It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life. (John 6:63)

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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)

grace ye.

Gr. whose grace ye.

Eph. 2:8• ⁸For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is God's gift: (Eph. 2:8)

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Acts 15:11• ¹¹But we believe that we shall be saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same manner as they also. (Acts 15:11)

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Rom. 3:24• ²⁴being justified freely by his grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; (Rom. 3:24)

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Rom. 4:16• ¹⁶Therefore it is on the principle of faith, that it might be according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all, (Rom. 4:16)

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Rom. 11:5‑6• ⁵Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace.
⁶But if by grace, no longer of works: since otherwise grace is no more grace. (Rom. 11:5‑6)

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Rom. 16:20• ²⁰But the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. (Rom. 16:20)

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2 Cor. 13:14• ¹⁴The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. (2 Cor. 13:14)

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Titus 2:11• ¹¹For the grace of God which carries with it salvation for all men has appeared, (Titus 2:11)

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Titus 3:5• ⁵not on the principle of works which have been done in righteousness which *we* had done, but according to his own mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, (Titus 3:5)

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Rev. 22:21• ²¹The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. (Rev. 22:21)

• We have a far deeper view of the hopelessly evil condition of man here, than even when all the details of impurity, superstition, and rebellion are entered into at full length. (“Remarks on Ephesians 2:4-10” by W. Kelly)

• It was not only that man by sin lost natural life, but he lost God; and it is not only that Christ gives me now a new and better life than the tree of life could give, but He gives me God. (“Remarks on Ephesians 2:4-10” by W. Kelly)

• He would not say that He quickened Christ absolutely. It is always qualified somehow, because Christ was life Himself. (“Remarks on Ephesians 2:4-10” by W. Kelly)

• It is said, “in the heavenly places,” because it is to them, and not to the earth, that we belong. (“Remarks on Ephesians 2:4-10” by W. Kelly)

• And we have been quickened with the Christ-not merely quickened, but with Him. Quickening has always been true from the beginning; for man-irrespective of dispensational differences-needs to be born again to enter into the kingdom of God; but association in life with Christ was not thus developed until He died and rose. Is not this what He alluded to in John 10? "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (“Meditations on Ephesians 2: Part 1”)

• Jews and Gentiles are found together in the same new position in Christ. Resurrection has put an end to all those distinctions; they have no place in a risen Christ. God has quickened the one and the other with Christ. (“Ephesians 2” by J.N. Darby)

• In Ephesians death is the very first place where we find even Christ. Not a word is said of sending Him into the world, or of His life and labors there, any more than of our doing this or being that. The first place where Christ is seen is in the grave whence God according to the mightiest action of His almighty power raised Him up. (“Ephesians 2” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are savedf by grace,)

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"Saved." The perfect tense, not the principle on which we are saved, but the actual fact, what has been done and so abides. so ver. 8.

W. Kelly Translation

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even us being dead in our offences he quickened with the Christ (by grace are ye saved),