Ephesians 2:5,8-9
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 2:7-10-7-10 The Message (MSG)
Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.
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 2:8-9 King James Version (KJV)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.
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 2:8-9 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
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 2:8-9 New Century Version (NCV)
I mean that you have been saved by grace through believing. You did not save yourselves; it was a gift from God. It was not the result of your own efforts, so you cannot brag about it.
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 2:8-9 American Standard Version (ASV)
for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not of works, that no man should glory.
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 2:8-9 New International Version (NIV)
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.
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 2:8-9 New King James Version (NKJV)
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
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 2:8-9 Amplified Bible (AMP)
For it is by grace [God’s remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ] that you have been saved [actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life] through faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [not through your own effort], but it is the [undeserved, gracious] gift of God; not as a result of [your] works [nor your attempts to keep the Law], so that no one will [be able to] boast or take credit in any way [for his salvation].
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!)
Ephesians 2:8-9 New Living Translation (NLT)
God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
Ephesians 2:5 The Passion Translation (TPT)
Even when we were dead and doomed in our many sins, he united us into the very life of Christ and saved us by his wonderful grace!
Ephesians 2:8-9 The Passion Translation (TPT)
For by grace you have been saved by faith. Nothing you did could ever earn this salvation, for it was the love gift from God that brought us to Christ! So no one will ever be able to boast, for salvation is never a reward for good works or human striving.
Ephesians 2:5 English Standard Version Revision 2016 (ESV)
even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved
