以弗所書 2:3-5 CUNPTS

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ephesians 2:1-10

2:1-3:21 GOD’S PLAN FOR THE CHURCHSinners saved by grace (2:1-10)In their natural state, all people are spiritually dead because of sin. Nothing they do can bring them back to life, because no matter how much good they try to do, they are still sinners. This is true of Jews and Gentiles alike. In body and mind they are under the control of Satan, and consequently are rebellious against God (2:1-3). Such rebels do not deserve God’s love, but God loves them nevertheless. God does for sinners what... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 2:3

Among. Greek. en . App-104 . also we . . . past = we also all once lived. conversation . See 2 Corinthians 1:12 . lusts . Greek. epithumia, strong desire. See Luke 22:15 . Not necessarily evil desire, as see the verb in 1 Timothy 3:1 . flesh . Old nature. See Romans 7:5 . fulfilling = doing. Greek. poieo. desires . App-102 . flesh . The coarse lusts of the body. mind . Greek. dianoia, thought. The refined lusts of the mind. by nature . See Romans 2:27 . the . Omit. children .... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 2:4

God . App-98 . Who is = being. mercy . Compare Romans 9:23 . for = on account of. App-104 .Ephesians 2:2 . love, loved . App-135 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 2:5

sins . As trespasses in Ephesians 2:1 . hath . Omit. quickened . . . together = made . . . alive with. Greek. suzoopoieo. Only here and Co Ephesians 1:2 , Ephesians 1:13 . Christ . App-98 . by No preposition. Dative case. grace. App-184 . are = were. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ephesians 2:4

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved).Dead through our trespasses ... "This describes the existing state from which we were made alive with Christ."[15] The same thought is in Romans 5:10 where our being enemies was the existing state from which we were reconciled to God.By grace have ye been saved ... In this Paul referred to salvation from past sins... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 2:3

Ephesians 2:3. Among whom also we, &c.— The Apostle, changing the expression from ye to we, seems plainly to declare, that he meant to include himself and all other Christians in what he here says. See Romans 3:9. Instead of the desires of the flesh and of the mind, some render the Greek, the dictates of the flesh and of the passions; observing that the word θεληματα, here made use of, expresses a kind of dictatorial power; and the plural, διανοιων, which we render mind, as it cannot here... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 2:4

Ephesians 2:4. But God,— This connects the present verse admirably well with that immediatelypreceding,andmakesthepartsofthat incidental discourse cohere; which ending in this verse, St. Paul, in the beginning of Ephesians 2:5, takes up the thread of his general discourse again, as if nothing had come between. See on Ephesians 2:1. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 2:5

Ephesians 2:5. Even when we were dead, &c.— "In this wonderful love, with which he of his own good pleasure has loved us, even when we Jews, as well as Gentiles, one as much as another, were in such forlorn, wretched, and desperate circumstances, as to be dead in sin, and so helpless, hopeless, and loathsome in our fallen state; he even then quickened us;"—that is, by the Spirit given to those who by faith in Christ were united to him, became his members, and sons of God, partaking of the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 2:3

3. also we—that is, we also. Paul here joins himself in the same category with them, passing from the second person (Ephesians 2:1; Ephesians 2:2) to the first person here. all—Jews and Gentiles. our conversation—"our way of life" (2 Corinthians 1:12; 1 Peter 1:18). This expression implies an outwardly more decorous course, than the open "walk" in gross sins on the part of the majority of Ephesians in times past, the Gentile portion of whom may be specially referred to in Ephesians 2:2. Paul... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 2:4

4. God, who is rich—Greek "(as) being rich in mercy." for—that is, "because of His great love." This was the special ground of God's saving us; as "rich in mercy" (compare Ephesians 2:7; Ephesians 1:7; Romans 2:4; Romans 10:12) was the general ground. "Mercy takes away misery; love confers salvation" [BENGEL]. read more

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ephesians 2:1-10

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 2:3

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 2:4

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 2:5

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ephesians 2:4

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 2:3

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 2:4

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 2:5

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 2:3

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 2:4

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