Ephesians 2:5
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
KJV
καὶ ὄντας ἡμᾶς νεκροὺς τοῖς παραπτώμασιν συνεζωοποίησεν τῷ Χριστῷ χάριτί ἐστε σεσῳσμένοι
Greek NT
et cum essemus mortui peccatis, convivificavit nos in Christo (cujus gratia estis salvati),
Vulgate
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),
ASV
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together in Christ (by whose grace you are saved)
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
νεκρός
nekros
adjective · 128×
παράπτωμα
paraptoma
noun · 19×
συζωοποιέω
suzoopoieo
verb · 2×
σώζω
sozo
verb · 106×
χάρις
charis
noun · 155×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
11 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§654The Paschal mystery has two aspects: by his death, Christ liberates us from sin; by his Resurrection, he opens for us the way to a new life. This new life is above all justification that reinstates us in God's grace, "so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life." Justification consists in both victory over the deat…
Man, before he is renewed into the new creation of the Spirit's kingdom, does and endeavors nothing to prepare himself for this renewal and kingdom, and when he is renewed, he does and endeavors nothing toward his perseverance in that kingdom; but the Spirit alone works both blessings in us, regenerating us, and preserving us when regenerate, without ourselves.
Canons of Dort · 4 passages
The Synod rejects the errors of those who teach that in election to faith a prerequisite condition is that human beings should rightly use the light of nature, be upright, small, humble, and disposed to eternal life, as though election depended to some extent on these factors.
And this is the regeneration, the new creation, the raising from the dead, and the making alive so clearly proclaimed in the Scriptures, which God works in us without our help. But this certainly does not happen only by outward teaching, by moral persuasion, or by such a way of working that, after God has done his part, it remains in human power to be regenerated or not regener…
The Synod rejects the errors of those who teach that in spiritual death the spiritual gifts have not been separated from the human will, since the will in itself has never been corrupted but has only been hindered by the darkness of the mind and the disorder of the emotions. Once these hindrances are removed, the will is able to exercise its innate free ability, that is, the wi…
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Those whom God has predestinated to life, He is pleased, in His appointed and accepted time, effectually to call by His Word and Spirit out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ.
We believe that the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace, through the mediatorial offices of the Son of God; who by the appointment of the Father, freely took upon Him our nature, yet without sin; honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and by His death made a full atonement for our sins; that having risen from the dead, He is now enthroned in heaven; and uniting i…
Cross-references
- 1John 3:14 — We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
- 1Tim 5:6 — But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
- 2Cor 3:6 — Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
- 2Cor 4:7 — But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
- 2Cor 13:14 — The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
- 2Tim 1:9 — Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
- Acts 13:48 — And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
- Acts 15:11 — But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
- Acts 15:11 — But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
- Col 2:13 — And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
- Col 3:1 — If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
- Eph 1:20 — Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
- Eph 2:1 — And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
- Eph 2:1 — And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
- Eph 2:8 — For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
- Eph 2:8 — For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
- Eph 5:14 — Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
- Eph 5:14 — Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
- Ezek 37:5 — Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
- Heb 6:1 — Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
- Heb 9:14 — How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- John 1:16 — And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
- John 5:19 — Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son li
- John 5:21 — For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
- John 5:25 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
- John 6:63 — It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
- Luke 15:24 — For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
- Matt 8:22 — But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
- Ps 119:40 — Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
- Rev 3:1 — And unto the angel of the church 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 11:12 — And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
- Rev 22:21 — The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
- Rom 3:24 — Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
- Rom 4:16 — Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who
- Rom 5:6 — For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
- Rom 5:8 — But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- Rom 5:10 — For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
- Rom 6:4 — Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
- Rom 6:5 — For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
- Rom 6:13 — Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto Go