Ephesians 2:1

Believers, once spiritually dead in sin, have been made alive by God. It sets out humanity's hopeless condition apart from grace and God's intervening life.

Cross-references · 20

• Col 2:13You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
• Eph 2:5–6even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
• Col 3:1–4If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
• Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
• Eph 4:18being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
• John 5:21For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
• John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
• 1 Jn 3:14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
• John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
• John 5:25Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.
• Eph 5:14Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
• 1 Tim 5:6But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
• Eph 1:19–20and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
• John 10:10The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
• 1 Cor 15:45So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
• Luke 15:32But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”
• Rev 3:1“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
• Matt 8:22But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”
• Luke 15:24for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ They began to celebrate.
• 2 Cor 5:14For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

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