Ephesians 2:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τῇ γὰρ χάριτί ἐστε σεσωσμένοι διὰ τῆς πίστεως· καὶ τοῦτο οὐκ ἐξ ὑμῶν: Θεοῦ τὸ δῶρον:

Transliteration

For the chariti you are sesōsmenoi through the pisteōs; and this not from you: of Theou the dōron

Grammar Details

• *chariti*: dative singular feminine - grace/favor
• *sesōsmenoi*: perfect passive participle, nominative plural masculine - having been saved
• *pisteōs*: genitive singular feminine - faith/belief/trust
• *Theou*: genitive singular masculine - God
• *dōron*: nominative singular neuter - gift/present

Word Meanings

• *chariti*: grace/favor/kindness
• *sesōsmenoi*: having been saved/rescued/delivered
• *pisteōs*: faith/belief/trust/faithfulness
• *dōron*: gift/present/offering

Referenced Verses

• Eph 2:5 : 5 Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),
• Rom 3:22-26 : 22 That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another, 23 For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God; 24 And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment; 26 And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus.
• Rom 4:16 : 16 For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
• Jas 1:16-18 : 16 Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers. 17 Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning. 18 Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.
• Acts 16:31 : 31 And they said, Have faith in the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will have salvation.
• Rom 10:9-9 : 9 Because, if you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and have faith in your heart that God has made him come back from the dead, you will have salvation: 10 For with the heart man has faith to get righteousness, and with the mouth he says that Jesus is Lord to get salvation.
• Mark 16:16 : 16 He who has faith and is given baptism will get salvation; but he who has not faith will be judged.
• John 1:12-13 : 12 To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name: 13 Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
• John 6:37 : 37 Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me.
• John 6:44 : 44 No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.
• Luke 7:50 : 50 And he said to the woman, By your faith you have salvation; go in peace.
• John 5:24 : 24 Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.
• John 6:27-29 : 27 Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark. 28 Then they said to him, How may we do the works of God? 29 Jesus, answering, said to them, This is to do the work of God: to have faith in him whom God has sent.
• John 3:36 : 36 He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.
• John 4:10 : 10 In answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he would give you living water.
• Gal 3:14 : 14 So that on the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; in order that we through faith might have the Spirit which God had undertaken to give.
• Gal 3:22 : 22 However, the holy Writings have put all things under sin, so that that for which God gave the undertaking, based on faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who have such faith.
• Eph 2:10 : 10 For 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.
• John 6:35 : 35 And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.
• Acts 13:39 : 39 And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.
• Acts 14:27 : 27 And when they came there, and had got the church together, they gave them an account of all the things which God had done through them, and how he had made open a door of faith to the Gentiles.
• John 6:65 : 65 And he said, This is why I said to you, No man is able to come to me if he is not given the power to do so by the Father.
• John 3:14-18 : 14 As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up: 15 So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life. 16 For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life. 17 God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him. 18 The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God.
• Col 2:12 : 12 Having 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.
• Rom 10:17 : 17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
• 1 John 5:10-12 : 10 He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son. 11 And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.
• 2 Thess 1:9 : 9 Whose reward will be eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,
• Eph 1:19 : 19 And how unlimited is his power to us who have faith, as is seen in the working of the strength of his power,
• Rom 10:14 : 14 But how will they give worship to him in whom they have no faith? and how will they have faith in him of whom they have not had news? and how will they have news without a preacher?
• Rom 4:5 : 5 But to him who without working has faith in him who gives righteousness to the evil-doer, his faith is put to his account as righteousness.
• John 6:40 : 40 This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.
• Acts 15:7-9 : 7 And when there had been much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, My brothers, you have knowledge that some time back it was God's pleasure that by my mouth the good news might be given to the Gentiles so that they might have faith. 8 And God, the searcher of hearts, was a witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit even as he did to us; 9 Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.
• Matt 16:17 : 17 And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven.
• Phil 1:29 : 29 Because to you it has been given in the cause of Christ not only to have faith in him, but to undergo pain on his account:
• 1 Pet 1:5 : 5 Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.
• Acts 16:14 : 14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a trader in purple cloth of the town of Thyatira, and a God-fearing woman, gave ear to us: whose heart the Lord made open to give attention to the things which Paul was saying.