“Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)”
King James Version (KJV)
2:5 He hath quickened us together with Christ - In conformity to him, and by virtue of our union with him. By grace ye are saved - Grace is both the beginning and end. The apostle speaks indifferently either in the first or second person; the Jews and gentiles being in the same circumstance, both by nature and by grace. This text lays the axe to the very root of spiritual pride, and all glorying in ourselves. Therefore St. Paul, foreseeing the backwardness of mankind to receive it, yet knowing the absolute necessity of its being received, again asserts the very same truth, #Eph 2:8|, in the very same words.
Eph 2:5 Hath quickened us together with Christ. As he quickened Christ and raised him, so when we were dead in sins he gave us spiritual life by the gospel and lifted us to a new life. "We were planted in the likeness of his death and resurrection" (Ro 6:5). By grace ye are saved. Not by works of the law, as he has shown so fully in the Galatian letter.
Euen when wee were dead in sinnes, hath quickned vs together with Christ, (by grace ye are saued)
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
- New American Standard Version (1995)
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),
- American Standard Version (1901)
Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),
- Basic English Bible
(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)
- Darby Bible
Even when we were dead in sins, hath made us alive together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
- Webster's Bible
caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live with Christ--it is by grace that you have been saved--
- Weymouth Bible
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
- World English Bible
yhe, whanne we weren deed in synnes, quikenede vs togidere in Crist, bi whos grace ye ben sauyd, and ayen reiside togidere,
- Wycliffe Bible
even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)
- Youngs Literal Bible