Ephesians 2:1
New International Version
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

New Living Translation
Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins.

English Standard Version
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

Berean Standard Bible
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

Berean Literal Bible
And you, being dead in your trespasses and sins--

King James Bible
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

New King James Version
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,

New American Standard Bible
And you were dead in your offenses and sins,

NASB 1995
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

NASB 1977
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

Legacy Standard Bible
And you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

Amplified Bible
And you [He made alive when you] were [spiritually] dead and separated from Him because of your transgressions and sins,

Christian Standard Bible
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins

American Standard Version
And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he fills even you who were dead in your sins and in your stupidity.

Contemporary English Version
In the past you were dead because you sinned and fought against God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you, when you were dead in your offences, and sins,

English Revised Version
And you did he quicken, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You were once dead because of your failures and sins.

Good News Translation
In the past you were spiritually dead because of your disobedience and sins.

International Standard Version
You used to be dead because of your offenses and sins

Literal Standard Version
Also you—being dead in trespasses and sins,

Majority Standard Bible
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

New American Bible
You were dead in your transgressions and sins

NET Bible
And although you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

New Revised Standard Version
You were dead through the trespasses and sins

New Heart English Bible
You were made alive when you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

Webster's Bible Translation
And you hath he revived, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

Weymouth New Testament
To you Gentiles also, who were dead through your offences and sins,

World English Bible
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

Young's Literal Translation
Also you -- being dead in the trespasses and the sins,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Alive with Christ
1And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.…

Cross References
Genesis 8:21
When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

Luke 15:24
For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!' So they began to celebrate.

Ephesians 2:5
made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

Ephesians 4:18
They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

Ephesians 5:14
So it is said: "Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

Colossians 2:13
When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,


Treasury of Scripture

And you has he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

you.

Ephesians 2:5,6
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) …

Ephesians 1:19,20
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, …

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.

dead.

Ephesians 2:5
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

Ephesians 4:18
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

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Ephesians 2
1. By comparing what we were by nature, with what we are by grace,
10. he declares that we are made for good works: and being brought near by Christ,
19. should not live as Gentiles and foreigners, but as citizens with the saints, and the family of God.














(1) And you hath he quickened.--And you also. St. Paul here begins the particular application to the Ephesians, which is the main subject of this chapter, broken off in Ephesians 2:3-10, and resumed in Ephesians 2:11. The words "hath He quickened" (or, properly, did He quicken) are supplied here from Ephesians 2:5--rightly, as expressing the true sense and tending to greater clearness, but perhaps not necessarily.

Trespasses and sins.--These two words, more often used separately, are here brought together, to form a climax. The word rendered "trespass" signifies a "swerving aside and falling"; the word rendered "sins" is generally used by St. Paul in the singular to denote "sin" in the abstract, and signifies an entire "missing of the mark" of life. Hence, even in the plural, it denotes universal and positive principles of evil doing, while "trespass" rather points to failure in visible and special acts of those not necessarily out of the right way.

Verses 1-10. - SPIRITUAL HISTORY OF THE EPHESIANS. This passage corresponds to Genesis 1. It is a history of creation, and we note the same great stages.

1. Chaos (vers. 1-3).

2. The dawn - the Spirit of God moving on the face of the waters (ver. 4).

3. The work of creation - in successive stages (vers. 4-10). Verse 1. - You also, who were dead in your trespasses and your sins. The apostle returns from his digression, in which he had shown the marvelous working of the Divine power on Christ, to show the working of the same power on the Ephesian converts themselves. The ὑμἀς is not governed by any verb going before; it manifestly depends on the συνεζωοποίησεν of ver. 5, but it is separated from it by a new digression (vers. 2, 3), on which the apostle immediately starts. While the same quickening power of God was exerted on Christ and on the Ephesians, it was exerted to very different effects: in the case of Christ, raising him literally from the dead and exalting him to heavenly glory; in the case of the Ephesians, raising them from spiritual death and exalting them to high spiritual privileges. We may observe the change from the second to the first person, and vice versa, in this chapter as in Ephesians 1. Second person (vers. 1, 8, 11); first (vers. 3, 10, 14); and the two streams brought together (ver. 18). The chapter closes beautifully with an emblem of the Church as the one temple of which all believers are parts. The death ascribed to the Ephesians in their natural state is evidently spiritual death, and "trespasses and sins," being in the dative (νεκροὺς τοῖς παραπτώμασι καὶ ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις), seems to indicate the cause of death - "dead through your trespasses and your sins" (R.V.); "dead of your trespasses," etc., is suggested by Alford. It is not easy to assign a different meaning to the two nouns here; some suggest acts of transgression for the one, and sinful tendencies or principles for the other, but this distinction cannot be carried out in all other passages. The killing effect of sin is indicated. As sins of sensuality kill truthfulness, industry, integrity, and all virtue, so sin generally, affecting as it does our whole nature, kills, or does not suffer to live, the affections and movements of the spiritual life. A state of "death" implies previous life - the race lived before; it implies also a state of insensibility, of utter powerlessness and helplessness.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
As for
Καὶ (Kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

you,
ὑμᾶς (hymas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

you were
ὄντας (ontas)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

dead
νεκροὺς (nekrous)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3498: (a) adj: dead, lifeless, subject to death, mortal, (b) noun: a dead body, a corpse. From an apparently primary nekus; dead.

in
τοῖς (tois)
Article - Dative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

trespasses
παραπτώμασιν (paraptōmasin)
Noun - Dative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3900: A falling away, lapse, slip, false step, trespass, sin. From parapipto; a side-slip, i.e. error or transgression.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

sins,
ἁμαρτίαις (hamartiais)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 266: From hamartano; a sin.


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