Ephesians 1:7

Geneva Bible (1560)

By whom we haue redemption through his blood, euen the forgiuenes of sinnes, according to his rich grace:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐν ᾧ ἔχομεν τὴν ἀπολύτρωσιν διὰ τοῦ αἵματος αὐτοῦ, τὴν ἄφεσιν τῶν παραπτωμάτων, κατὰ τὸν πλοῦτον τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ·

Transliteration

In whom we echomen the apolytrōsin through the haimatos of him, the aphesin of the paraptōmatōn, according to the plouton of the charitos of him;

Grammar Details

• *En*: preposition governing dative - sphere/location
• *hō*: relative pronoun, dative, masculine, singular - referring to *ēgapēmenō*
• *echomen*: present active indicative, 1st plural - main verb
• *apolytrōsin*: accusative, feminine, singular - direct object
• *dia*: preposition governing genitive - means
• *haimatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - means
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular - possessive
• *aphesin*: accusative, feminine, singular - in apposition to *apolytrōsin*
• *paraptōmatōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - objective genitive
• *kata*: preposition governing accusative - standard/norm
• *plouton*: accusative, masculine, singular - object of preposition
• *charitos*: genitive, feminine, singular - possessive

Word Meanings

• *echomen*: have/possess/hold
• *apolytrōsin*: redemption/ransom/deliverance
• *haimatos*: blood
• *aphesin*: forgiveness/remission/release
• *paraptōmatōn*: trespasses/transgressions/offenses
• *plouton*: riches/wealth/abundance
• *charitos*: grace/favor/goodwill

Referenced Verses

• Rom 3:24 : 24 And are iustified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Iesus,
• Col 1:14 : 14 In whome we haue redemption through his blood, that is, the forgiuenesse of sinnes,
• Eph 3:16 : 16 That he might graunt you according to the riches of his glorie, that ye may be strengthened by his Spirit in the inner man,
• Eph 2:7 : 7 That he might shewe in the ages to come the exceeding riches of his grace, through his kindnesse toward vs in Christ Iesus.
• Eph 3:8 : 8 Euen vnto me the least of all Saints is this grace giuen, that I should preach among the Gentiles the vnsearchable riches of Christ,
• Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heede therefore vnto your selues, and to all the flocke, whereof the holy Ghost hath made you Ouerseers, to feede the Church of God, which hee hath purchased with that his owne blood.
• Rom 2:4 : 4 Or despisest thou the riches of his bountifulnesse, and patience, and long sufferance, not knowing that the bountifulnesse of God leadeth thee to repentance?
• 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But ye are of him in Christ Iesus, who of God is made vnto vs wisedome and righteousnesse, and sanctification, and redemption,
• Acts 2:38 : 38 Then Peter said vnto them, Amend your liues, and bee baptized euery one of you in the Name of Iesus Christ for the remission of sinnes: and ye shall receiue the gift of the holy Ghost.
• Col 1:27 : 27 To whome God woulde make knowen what is the riches of his glorious mysterie among the Gentiles, which riches is Christ in you, the hope of glory,
• 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 Who his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his body on the tree, that we being dead to sinne, should liue in righteousnesse: by whose stripes ye were healed.
• Heb 9:12-15 : 12 Neither by the blood of goates and calues: but by his owne blood entred he in once vnto the holy place, and obteined eternall redemption for vs. 13 For if the blood of bulles and of goates, and the ashes of an heifer, sprinkling them that are vncleane, sanctifieth as touching the purifying of the flesh, 14 How much more shal the blood of Christ which through the eternall Spirit offered himselfe without fault to God, purge your conscience from dead workes, to serue the liuing God? 15 And for this cause is he the Mediatour of the newe Testament, that through death which was for the redemption of the transgressions that were in the former Testament, they which were called, might receiue the promise of eternall inheritance.
• Heb 9:22 : 22 And almost all things are by the Law purged with blood, and without sheading of blood is no remission.
• Heb 10:4-9 : 4 For it is vnpossible that the blood of bulles and goates should take away sinnes. 5 Wherefore when he commeth into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offring thou wouldest not: but a body hast thou ordeined me. 6 In burnt offerings, and sinne offrings thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then I sayd, Lo, I come (In the beginning of the booke it is written of me) that I should doe thy will, O God. 8 Aboue, when he sayd, Sacrifice and offring, and burnt offrings, and sinne offrings thou wouldest not haue, neither hadst pleasure therein (which are offered by the Lawe) 9 Then sayd he, Lo, I come to doe thy wil, O God, he taketh away the first, that he may stablish the second. 10 By the which wil we are sanctified, euen by the offring of the body of Iesus Christ once made. 11 And euery Priest standeth dayly ministring, and oft times offreth one maner of offring, which can neuer take away sinnes: 12 But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sinnes, sitteth for euer at the right hand of God,
• Heb 10:17-18 : 17 And their sinnes and iniquities will I remember no more. 18 Nowe where remission of these things is, there is no more offering for sinne.
• 1 Pet 1:18-19 : 18 Knowing that yee were not redeemed with corruptible things, as siluer and golde, from your vaine conuersation, receiued by the traditions of the fathers, 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lambe vndefiled, and without spot.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sinnes, the iust for the vniust, that he might bring vs to God, and was put to death concerning the flesh, but was quickened by the spirit.
• 1 John 1:7-9 : 7 But if we walke in the light as he is in the light, we haue fellowship one with another, and the blood of Iesus Christ his Sonne clenseth vs from all sinne. 8 If we say that we haue no sinne, we deceiue our selues, and trueth is not in vs. 9 If we acknowledge our sinnes, he is faithfull and iust, to forgiue vs our sinnes, & to clense vs from all vnrighteousnes.
• 1 John 2:2 : 2 And he is the reconciliation for our sinnes: and not for ours onely, but also for the sinnes of the whole world.
• 1 John 2:12 : 12 Litle children, I write vnto you, because your sinnes are forgiuen you for his Names sake.
• 1 John 4:10 : 10 Herein is that loue, not that we loued God, but that he loued vs, and sent his Sonne to be a reconciliation for our sinnes.
• Col 2:2 : 2 That their heartes might be comforted, and they knit together in loue, and in all riches of the full assurance of vnderstanding, to know the mysterie of God, euen the Father, and of Christ:
• Col 2:13 : 13 And you which were dead in sinnes, and in the vncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, forgiuing you all your trespasses,
• 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 Who gaue himselfe a ransome for all men, to be that testimonie in due time,
• Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gaue him selfe for vs, that hee might redeeme vs from all iniquitie, and purge vs to bee a peculiar people vnto himselfe, zealous of good woorkes.
• Titus 3:6 : 6 Which he shed on vs aboundantly, through Iesus Christ our Sauiour,
• Phil 4:19 : 19 And my God shall fulfill all your necessities through his riches with glorie in Iesus Christ.
• Acts 3:19 : 19 Amend your liues therefore, and turne, that your sinnes may be put away, whe the time of refreshing shal come from the presence of the Lord.
• Acts 10:43 : 43 To him also giue all the Prophets witnesse, that through his Name all that beleeue in him, shall receiue remission of sinnes.
• Acts 13:38-39 : 38 Be it knowen vnto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached vnto you the forgiuenesse of sinnes. 39 And from al things, from which ye could not be iustified by the Law of Moses, by him euery one that beleeueth, is iustified.
• Exod 34:7 : 7 Reseruing mercy for thousands, forgiuing iniquitie, and transgression and sinne, and not making the wicked innocent, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon ye children, & vpon childrens children, vnto the third and fourth generation.
• Job 33:24 : 24 Then will he haue mercie vpon him, and will say, Deliuer him, that he go not downe into the pit: for I haue receiued a reconciliation.
• Ps 32:1-2 : 1 A Psalme of Dauid to giue instruction. Blessed is he whose wickednes is forgiuen, and whose sinne is couered. 2 Blessed is the man, vnto whom the Lorde imputeth not iniquitie, and in whose spirite there is no guile.
• Ps 86:5 : 5 For thou, Lord, art good and mercifull, and of great kindenes vnto all them, that call vpon thee.
• 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For ye knowe the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ, that hee being rich, for your sakes became poore, that yee through his pouertie might be made rich.
• Eph 1:6 : 6 To the prayse of the glory of his grace, wherewith he hath made vs freely accepted in his beloued,
• Eph 2:4 : 4 But God which is rich in mercie, through his great loue wherewith he loued vs,
• Rom 4:6-9 : 6 Euen as Dauid declareth the blessednesse of the man, vnto whom God imputeth righteousnes without workes, saying, 7 Blessed are they, whose iniquities are forgiuen, and whose sinnes are couered. 8 Blessed is the man, to whom the Lord imputeth not sinne. 9 Came this blessednesse then vpon the circumcision onely, or vpon the vncircumcision also? For we say, that faith was imputed vnto Abraham for righteousnesse.
• Rom 9:23 : 23 And that hee might declare the riches of his glory vpon the vessels of mercy, which hee hath prepared vnto glory?
• Ps 130:7 : 7 Let Israel waite on the Lorde: for with the Lorde is mercie, and with him is great redemption.
• Isa 43:25 : 25 I, euen I am he that putteth away thine iniquities for mine owne sake, and will not remember thy sinnes.
• Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seeke ye the Lord while he may be found: call ye vpon him while he is neere. 7 Let the wicked forsake his wayes, and the vnrighteous his owne imaginations, and returne vnto the Lord, and he wil haue mercy vpon him: and to our God, for hee is very ready to forgiue.
• Jer 31:34 : 34 And they shall teach no more euery man his neighbour and euery man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me from the least of them vnto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I wil forgiue their iniquitie, and will remember their sinnes no more.
• Dan 9:9 : 9 Yet compassion and forgiuenesse is in the Lorde our God, albeit we haue rebelled against him.
• Dan 9:19 : 19 O Lorde, heare, O Lorde forgiue, O Lorde consider, and doe it: deferre not, for thine owne sake, O my God: for thy Name is called vpon thy citie, and vpon thy people.
• Dan 9:24-26 : 24 Seuentie weekes are determined vpon thy people and vpon thine holy citie, to finish the wickednes, and to seale vp the sinnes, and to reconcile the inquitie, and to bring in euerlasting righteousnesse, and to seale vp the vision and prophecie, and to anoynt the most Holy. 25 Knowe therefore and vnderstande, that from the going foorth of the commaundement to bring againe the people, and to builde Ierusalem, vnto Messiah the prince, shall be seuen weekes and threescore and two weekes, and the streete shalbe built againe, and the wall euen in a troublous time. 26 And after threescore and two weekes, shal Messiah be slaine, and shal haue nothing,, and the people of the prince that shal come, shal destroy the citie and the Sanctuarie, and the end thereof shalbe with a flood: and vnto the end of the battell it shalbe destroyed by desolations.
• Jonah 4:2 : 2 And he prayed vnto the Lord, and saide, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my countrey? therefore I preuented it to flee vnto Tarshish: for I knewe that thou art a gratious God, & merciful, slow to anger, & of great kindnes, and repentest thee of the euill.
• Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like vnto thee, that taketh away iniquitie, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage! He reteineth not his wrath for euer, because mercie pleaseth him.
• Zech 9:11 : 11 Thou also shalt be saued through the blood of thy couenant. I haue loosed thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
• Zech 13:1 : 1 In that day there shall be a fountaine opened to the house of Dauid, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem, for sinne and for vncleannesse.
• Zech 13:7 : 7 Arise, O sword, vpon my shepheard, and vpon the man, that is my fellow, sayth the Lord of hostes: smite the shepheard, and the sheepe shall be scattered: and I will turne mine hand vpon the litle ones.
• Matt 20:28 : 28 Euen as the Sonne of man came not to be serued, but to serue, and to giue his life for the ransome of many.
• Matt 26:28 : 28 For this is my blood of the Newe Testament, that is shedde for many, for the remission of sinnes.
• Mark 14:24 : 24 And he saide vnto them, This is my blood of that newe Testament, which is shed for many.
• Luke 1:77 : 77 And to giue knowledge of saluation vnto his people, by the remission of their sinnes,
• Luke 7:40-42 : 40 And Iesus answered, and saide vnto him, Simon, I haue somewhat to say vnto thee; he said, Master, say on. 41 There was a certaine lender which had two detters: the one ought fiue hundreth pence, and the other fiftie: 42 When they had nothing to pay, he forgaue them both: Which of them therefore, tell mee, will loue him most?
• Luke 7:47-50 : 47 Wherefore I say vnto thee, many sinnes are forgiuen her: for she loued much. To whom a litle is forgiuen, he doeth loue a litle. 48 And he saide vnto her, Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee. 49 And they that sate at table with him, began to say within themselues, Who is this that euen forgiueth sinnes? 50 And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saued thee: goe in peace.
• Luke 24:47 : 47 And that repentance, and remission of sinnes should be preached in his Name among all nations, beginning at Hierusalem.
• John 20:23 : 23 Whosoeuers sinnes ye remit, they are remitted vnto them: and whosoeuers sinnes ye reteine, they are reteined.
• Ps 130:4 : 4 But mercie is with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
• Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthie to take the Booke, and to open the seales thereof, because thou wast killed, and hast redeemed vs to God by thy blood out of euery kinred, and tongue, and people, and nation,
• Rev 14:4 : 4 These are they, which are not defiled with women: for they are virgins: these followe the Lambe whithersoeuer he goeth: these are bought from men, being the first fruites vnto God, and to the Lambe.