Ephesians 2:5
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 2:5 King James Version (KJV)
even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
Ephesians 2:5 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)
Ephesians 2:5 New Century Version (NCV)
Though we were spiritually dead because of the things we did against God, he gave us new life with Christ. You have been saved by God’s grace.
Ephesians 2:5 American Standard Version (ASV)
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved)
Ephesians 2:5 New International Version (NIV)
made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
Ephesians 2:5 New King James Version (NKJV)
even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)
Ephesians 2:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
even when we were [spiritually] dead and separated from Him because of our sins, He made us [spiritually] alive together with Christ (for by His grace—His undeserved favor and mercy—you have been saved from God’s judgment). [Rom 6:1-10]
Ephesians 2:5 New Living Translation (NLT)
that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)