Ephesians 2:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

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  • Col 2:13 : 13 And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;
  • Eph 2:5-6 : 5 Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation), 6 So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;
  • Eph 4:18 : 18 Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;
  • John 11:25-26 : 25 Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead; 26 And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?
  • Col 3:1-4 : 1 If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth. 3 For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God. 4 At the coming of Christ who is our life, you will be seen with him in glory.
  • 1 John 3:14 : 14 We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
  • John 10:10 : 10 The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure.
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.
  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
  • 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.
  • 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;
  • Eph 1:19-20 : 19 And how unlimited is his power to us who have faith, as is seen in the working of the strength of his power, 20 By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven,
  • Luke 15:24 : 24 For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.
  • Luke 15:32 : 32 But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.
  • John 5:21 : 21 In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it.
  • John 5:25 : 25 Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.
  • Matt 8:22 : 22 But Jesus said to him, Come after me; and let the dead take care of their dead.
  • Rev 3:1 : 1 And to the angel of the church in Sardis say: These things says he who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I have knowledge of your works, that you seem to be living but are dead.
  • 1 Tim 5:6 : 6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Col 2:11-14
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    11In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

    12Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.

    13And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;

    14Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross;

  • Eph 2:2-8
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    2In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

    3Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

    4But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

    5Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),

    6So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;

    7That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus:

    8Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

  • Eph 5:14
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    14For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

  • Col 3:7
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    7Among whom you were living in the past, when you did such things.

  • Rom 8:9-11
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    9You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

    10And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

    11But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.

  • Rom 6:11
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    11Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

  • Col 1:21-22
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    21And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one

    22In the body of his flesh through death, so that you might be holy and without sin and free from all evil before him:

  • Rom 6:7-8
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    7Because he who is dead is free from sin.

    8But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;

  • Col 3:3
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    3For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.

  • Eph 5:8
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    8For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

  • Eph 1:20
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    20By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven,

  • Eph 2:12-13
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    12That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.

    13But now in Christ Jesus you who at one time were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

  • Col 1:13-14
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    13Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;

    14In whom we have our salvation, the forgiveness of sins:

  • 2 Cor 4:12
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    12So then, death is working in us, but life in you.

  • Rom 8:13
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    13For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

  • 1 Pet 1:3
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    3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

  • Rom 8:2
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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • Eph 1:6-7
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    6To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

    7In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,

  • Titus 3:5
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    5Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,

  • Eph 2:10
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    10For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

  • 1 Pet 1:21
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    21Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

  • 1 Pet 4:6
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    6For this was the reason why the good news of Jesus was given even to the dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but might be living before God in the spirit.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

  • Eph 2:22
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    22In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.

  • Rom 6:4
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    4We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.

  • Col 2:20
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    20If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

  • 2 Tim 1:9
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    9Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

  • Eph 2:18
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    18Because through him the two of us are able to come near in one Spirit to the Father.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

  • Col 2:6
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    6As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,

  • Rom 6:2
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    2In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

  • 1 Cor 15:22
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    22For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life.

  • Eph 4:18
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    18Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

  • Eph 1:13
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    13In whom you, having been given the true word, the good news of your salvation, and through your faith in him, were given the sign of the Holy Spirit of hope,