Ephesians 2

Ephesians 2:1

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

And you hath he by his Spirit quickened, who were in the state of your corrupt nature, dead in your sins and trespasses: having therefore no more power to raise up yourselves, than the dead man hath to raise himself from his grave, now he hath wrought powerfully in you, and hath freed you from those your sins;

Ephesians 2:2

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.

Wherein ye lived in times past, framing yourselves according to the wicked course and trade of the world; and according to the will of him, who is the prince of those wicked spirits, which exercise their power in the air; even that Evil Spirit, which now worketh and ruleth in them, who are wilfully disobedient.

Ephesians 2:3

Fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

Fulfilling the sinful desires of their corrupt nature, both in carnal, and in mental or spiritual sins; both in bodily uncleannesses, and in the errors and exorbitances of the mind; and were naturally such, as could expect nothing from the hands of God, but wrath and damnation; even as other heathens justly may, and are.

Ephesians 2:5

Hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved.)

Having raised Christ, the Head, hath, together with and in him, quickened us his members, by virtue of his Resurrection; and that merely out of his own good will towards us, for by grace, and not by any merits of ours, are we saved. So also verse 6.

Ephesians 2:7

That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

That not only the present age, but those that are to come also, might see and feel the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness towards the Gentiles also, in calling them home to him through Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 2:8

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

For, out of the mere favour and mercy of God, are ye saved, through Faith in Christ: ye cannot merit any thing, as of yourselves; it is the free gift of God.

Ephesians 2:9

Not of works, lest any man should boast.

This salvation is not of Works, lest any man should find cause of boasting in himself, that he hath earned it at God’s hand, and therefore is not beholden to his mercy.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

For all that we are and have is his: we are his workmanship, created not only in Adam to a natural life, but in Christ to a spiritual life of new obedience, that we should do all manner of good works, which God hath, in his eternal counsel, prepared and fore-ordained for us to walk in.

Ephesians 2:11

Who are called Uncircumcision, by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands.

Who are scornfully called, The uncircumcision, by those Jews which boast themselves to be called by the title of a fleshly circumcision; as if in this right they were accepted of God, and ye in the defect thereof were forlorn and rejected.

Ephesians 2:12

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.

That, at that time, ye had neither knowledge of Christ, nor any interest in him; being mere foreigners from the holy Church of God, and strangers from the gracious Covenant which he hath made with all his faithful ones; having neither any hope of salvation, nor any just ground of hope; and living, as without the acknowledgement of a God in the world.

Ephesians 2:14

For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken the middle wall of partition between us?

For he is our perfect Peace-Maker; yea our very Peace and Reconciliation itself; who hath conjoined, in one body of the Church, both Jews and Gentiles: and, whereas there was a wall of partition set up betwixt these two, so as they could not come together, he hath broken down that pile of division; so as now, we are one family, as it were, in one room of the same Church;

Ephesians 2:15

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

Having, in his suffering of death in his body, utterly abolished the cause of this division and enmity, which was the Law Ceremonial, consisting of divers rites and ordinances; for to make those two kinds of people, Jews and Gentiles, one new creature, in and to himself; so, by this gracious union, making peace betwixt them;

Ephesians 2:16

And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby.

And that, having made them up into one body, he might reconcile them, not to themselves only, but to God also, by that propitiatory sacrifice, which he made of himself upon his cross; having utterly extinguished thereby the enmity betwixt God and us. VOL. IV. F f

Ephesians 2:20

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

And are the living stones of that holy Church of his, which is built upon the foundation of the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles, Jesus Christ himself being that Chief Corner Stone, in whom both the walls of Jews and Gentiles are conjoined;

Ephesians 2:21

In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord.

In whom alone, all the whole building, being compacted and cemented together by love, is made up into one Evangelical Church, whereof the Temple was a type.