Ephesians 1:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His 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

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  By whom we have redemption thorow his bloude euen the forgevenes of synnes accordynge to the riches of his grace

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  in whom we haue redempcion thorow his bloude (namely) the forgeuenes of synnes, acordynge to ye riches of his grace,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

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

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  In whom we haue redemption through his blood, the forgeuenesse of sinnes, accordyng to the rychesse of his grace,

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

• World English Bible (2000)

  in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of his grace

Referenced Verses

• Rom 3:24 : 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
• Col 1:14 : 14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins:
• Eph 3:16 : 16 That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner being;
• Eph 2:7 : 7 That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
• Eph 3:8 : 8 To me, who am less than the least of all saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
• Acts 20:28 : 28 Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.
• Rom 2:4 : 4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
• 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—
• Acts 2:38 : 38 Then Peter said to them, 'Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
• Col 1:27 : 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
• 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
• Heb 9:12-15 : 12 Not by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh, 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 And for this reason He is the mediator of the new covenant, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
• Heb 9:22 : 22 And almost all things are purified by the law with blood; and without shedding of blood there is no remission.
• Heb 10:4-9 : 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. 5 Therefore, when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me: 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure. 7 Then I said, Behold, I have come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God. 8 Previously saying, Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin you did not desire, nor had pleasure in them (which are offered according to the law), 9 Then he said, Behold, I have come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first that he may establish the second. 10 By that will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God;
• Heb 10:17-18 : 17 And their sins and lawless deeds I will remember no more. 18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
• 1 Pet 1:18-19 : 18 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit;
• 1 John 1:7-9 : 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• 1 John 2:2 : 2 And he is the atonement for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
• 1 John 2:12 : 12 I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
• 1 John 4:10 : 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
• Col 2:2 : 2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
• Col 2:13 : 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made alive together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
• 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 Who gave Himself as a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
• Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a special people, zealous for good works.
• Titus 3:6 : 6 Whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
• Phil 4:19 : 19 But my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
• Acts 3:19 : 19 Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
• Acts 10:43 : 43 To him all the prophets witness that through his name whoever believes in him shall receive forgiveness of sins.
• Acts 13:38-39 : 38 Let it be known to you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins: 39 And by him all who believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
• Exod 34:7 : 7 "Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."
• Job 33:24 : 24 Then He is gracious to him and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom.
• Ps 32:1-2 : 1 Blessed is he whose wrongdoing is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not count iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
• Ps 86:5 : 5 For You, Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all them that call upon You.
• 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that through his poverty you might become rich.
• Eph 1:6 : 6 To the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved.
• Eph 2:4 : 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
• Rom 4:6-9 : 6 Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works, 7 Saying, Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. 8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not credit sin. 9 Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness.
• Rom 9:23 : 23 And that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,
• Ps 130:7 : 7 Let Israel hope in the LORD, for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is abundant redemption.
• Isa 43:25 : 25 I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
• Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
• Jer 31:34 : 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
• Dan 9:9 : 9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him;
• Dan 9:19 : 19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, listen and act; do not delay, for Your own sake, O my God: for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.
• Dan 9:24-26 : 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem until the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times. 26 And after sixty-two weeks, the Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; its end shall be with a flood, and until the end of the war desolations are determined.
• Jonah 4:2 : 2 And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and relent from doing harm.
• Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in mercy.
• Zech 9:11 : 11 As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit where there is no water.
• Zech 13:1 : 1 In that day, there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurities.
• Zech 13:7 : 7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is my fellow, says the LORD of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.
• Matt 20:28 : 28 Even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
• Matt 26:28 : 28 For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
• Mark 14:24 : 24 And he said to them, This is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many.
• Luke 1:77 : 77 To give knowledge of salvation to His people by the remission of their sins,
• Luke 7:40-42 : 40 And Jesus answering said to him, Simon, I have something to say to you. And he said, Master, say on. 41 There was a certain creditor who had two debtors: one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. 42 And when they had nothing to pay, he freely forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?
• Luke 7:47-50 : 47 Therefore I say to you, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little. 48 And he said to her, Your sins are forgiven. 49 And those who sat at the meal with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that also forgives sins? 50 And he said to the woman, Your faith has saved you; go in peace.
• Luke 24:47 : 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
• John 20:23 : 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.
• Ps 130:4 : 4 But there is forgiveness with you, that you may be feared.
• Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for You were slain and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
• Rev 14:4 : 4 These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.