1And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
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And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ,(by grace ye are saved;) …
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. …
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)The miserable condition of the Ephesians by nature is here in part described. Observed, 1. Unregenerate souls are dead in trespasses and sins. All those who are in their sins, are dead in sins; yea, in trespasses and sins, which may signify all sorts of sins, habitual and actual, sins of heart and of life. Sin is the death of the soul. Wherever that prevails there is a privation of all spiritual l…
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