Ephesians 2:4,8
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 2:4 King James Version (KJV)
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us
Ephesians 2:8 King James Version (KJV)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God
Ephesians 2:4 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us
Ephesians 2:8 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God
Ephesians 2:4 New Century Version (NCV)
But God’s mercy is great, and he loved us very much.
Ephesians 2:8 New Century Version (NCV)
I mean that you have been saved by grace through believing. You did not save yourselves; it was a gift from God.
Ephesians 2:4 American Standard Version (ASV)
but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us
Ephesians 2:8 American Standard Version (ASV)
for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God
Ephesians 2:4 New International Version (NIV)
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy
Ephesians 2:8 New International Version (NIV)
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God
Ephesians 2:4 New King James Version (NKJV)
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us
Ephesians 2:8 New King James Version (NKJV)
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God
Ephesians 2:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
But God, being [so very] rich in mercy, because of His great and wonderful love with which He loved us
Ephesians 2:8 Amplified Bible (AMP)
For it is by grace [God’s remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ] that you have been saved [actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life] through faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [not through your own effort], but it is the [undeserved, gracious] gift of God
Ephesians 2:4 New Living Translation (NLT)
But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much
Ephesians 2:8 New Living Translation (NLT)
God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God.
Ephesians 2:4 The Passion Translation (TPT)
But God still loved us with such great love. He is so rich in compassion and mercy.
Ephesians 2:8 The Passion Translation (TPT)
For by grace you have been saved by faith. Nothing you did could ever earn this salvation, for it was the love gift from God that brought us to Christ!
Ephesians 2:4 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us
