Ephesians 2:4-5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 2:5

Even when we were dead in sins - notes, Ephesians 2:1; compare Romans 5:8. The construction here is, “God, who is rich in mercy, on account of the great love which he bare unto us, even being dead in sin, hath quickened us,” etc. It does not mean that he quickened us when we were dead in sin, but that he loved us then, and made provision for our salvation. It was love to the children of wrath; love to those who had no love to return to him; love to the alienated and the lost. That is true love... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ephesians 2:4-6

Ephesians 2:4-6. But God, who is rich in mercy That is, in compassion for us, amidst our sins and miseries, and in his free, gratuitous goodness and readiness to pardon the guilty, and save the lost: for his great love Of benevolence and bounty; wherewith he loved us When there was nothing in us but sin and misery to move him to do it. Love in God was the cause why he resolved to show mercy to certain descriptions of persons, namely, to such as should obey the gospel call to repentance,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ephesians 2:1-10

2:1-3:21 GOD’S PLAN FOR THE CHURCHSinners saved by grace (2:1-10)In their natural state, all people are spiritually dead because of sin. Nothing they do can bring them back to life, because no matter how much good they try to do, they are still sinners. This is true of Jews and Gentiles alike. In body and mind they are under the control of Satan, and consequently are rebellious against God (2:1-3). Such rebels do not deserve God’s love, but God loves them nevertheless. God does for sinners what... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 2:4

God . App-98 . Who is = being. mercy . Compare Romans 9:23 . for = on account of. App-104 .Ephesians 2:2 . love, loved . App-135 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 2:5

sins . As trespasses in Ephesians 2:1 . hath . Omit. quickened . . . together = made . . . alive with. Greek. suzoopoieo. Only here and Co Ephesians 1:2 , Ephesians 1:13 . Christ . App-98 . by No preposition. Dative case. grace. App-184 . are = were. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ephesians 2:4

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved).Dead through our trespasses ... "This describes the existing state from which we were made alive with Christ."[15] The same thought is in Romans 5:10 where our being enemies was the existing state from which we were reconciled to God.By grace have ye been saved ... In this Paul referred to salvation from past sins... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 2:4

Ephesians 2:4. But God,— This connects the present verse admirably well with that immediatelypreceding,andmakesthepartsofthat incidental discourse cohere; which ending in this verse, St. Paul, in the beginning of Ephesians 2:5, takes up the thread of his general discourse again, as if nothing had come between. See on Ephesians 2:1. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 2:5

Ephesians 2:5. Even when we were dead, &c.— "In this wonderful love, with which he of his own good pleasure has loved us, even when we Jews, as well as Gentiles, one as much as another, were in such forlorn, wretched, and desperate circumstances, as to be dead in sin, and so helpless, hopeless, and loathsome in our fallen state; he even then quickened us;"—that is, by the Spirit given to those who by faith in Christ were united to him, became his members, and sons of God, partaking of the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 2:4

4. God, who is rich—Greek "(as) being rich in mercy." for—that is, "because of His great love." This was the special ground of God's saving us; as "rich in mercy" (compare Ephesians 2:7; Ephesians 1:7; Romans 2:4; Romans 10:12) was the general ground. "Mercy takes away misery; love confers salvation" [BENGEL]. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 2:5

5. dead in sins—The best reading is in the Greek, "dead in our (literally, 'the') trespasses." quickened—"vivified" spiritually, and consequences hereafter, corporally. There must be a spiritual resurrection of the soul before there can be a comfortable resurrection of the body [PEARSON] (John 11:25; John 11:26; Romans 8:11). together with Christ—The Head being seated at God's right hand, the body also sits there with Him [CHRYSOSTOM]. We are already seated there IN Him ("in Christ Jesus,"... read more

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