Ephesians 2:1,10
Ephesians 2:1-6 The Message (MSG)
It wasn’t so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn’t know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It’s a wonder God didn’t lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.
Ephesians 2:7-10 The Message (MSG)
Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.
Ephesians 2:1 King James Version (KJV)
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins
Ephesians 2:10 King James Version (KJV)
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:1 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins
Ephesians 2:10 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
Ephesians 2:1 New Century Version (NCV)
In the past you were spiritually dead because of your sins and the things you did against God.
Ephesians 2:10 New Century Version (NCV)
God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us to do good works, which God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing.
Ephesians 2:1 American Standard Version (ASV)
And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins
Ephesians 2:10 American Standard Version (ASV)
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:1 New International Version (NIV)
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins
Ephesians 2:10 New International Version (NIV)
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:1 New King James Version (NKJV)
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins
Ephesians 2:10 New King James Version (NKJV)
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:1 Amplified Bible (AMP)
And you [He made alive when you] were [spiritually] dead and separated from Him because of your transgressions and sins
Ephesians 2:10 Amplified Bible (AMP)
For we are His workmanship [His own master work, a work of art], created in Christ Jesus [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be used] for good works, which God prepared [for us] beforehand [taking paths which He set], so that we would walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us]. [Rom 1:20]
Ephesians 2:1 New Living Translation (NLT)
Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins.
Ephesians 2:10 New Living Translation (NLT)
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
Ephesians 2:1 The Passion Translation (TPT)
And his fullness fills you, even though you were once like corpses, dead in your sins and offenses.
Ephesians 2:10 The Passion Translation (TPT)
We have become his poetry, a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny he has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works we would do to fulfill it!
Ephesians 2:1 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
