5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ,(by grace ye are saved;)
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Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-10)Here the apostle begins his account of the glorious change that was wrought in them by converting grace, where observe, I. By whom, and in what manner, it was brought about and effected. 1. Negatively: Not of yourselves , Eph. 2:8. Our faith, our conversion, and our eternal salvation, are not the mere product of any natural abilities, nor of any merit of our own: Not of works, lest any man should…
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