Ephesians 2:1

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New Life Individually And although you were dead in your offenses and sins,

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  • Col 2:13 : 13 And even though you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions.
  • Eph 2:5-6 : 5 even though we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ– by grace you are saved!– 6 and he raised us up together with him and seated us together with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
  • Eph 4:18 : 18 They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
  • John 11:25-26 : 25 Jesus said to her,“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies, 26 and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
  • Col 3:1-4 : 1 Exhortations to Seek the Things Above Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth, 3 for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ(who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him.
  • 1 John 3:14 : 14 We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 For everything made visible is light, and for this reason it says:“Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!”
  • John 10:10 : 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus replied,“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
  • 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 So also it is written,“The first man, Adam, became a living person”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
  • 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.
  • Eph 1:19-20 : 19 and what is the incomparable greatness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of his immense strength. 20 This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms
  • Luke 15:24 : 24 because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again– he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.
  • Luke 15:32 : 32 It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”
  • John 5:21 : 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.
  • John 5:25 : 25 I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming– and is now here– when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
  • Matt 8:22 : 22 But Jesus said to him,“Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
  • Rev 3:1 : 1 To the Church in Sardis“To the angel of the church in Sardis write the following:“This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars:‘I know your deeds, that you have a reputation that you are alive, but in reality you are dead.
  • 1 Tim 5:6 : 6 But the one who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Col 2:11-14
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    11In him you also were circumcised– not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.

    12Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.

    13And even though you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions.

    14He has destroyed what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.

  • Eph 2:2-8
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    2in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the domain of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,

    3among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…

    4But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

    5even though we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ– by grace you are saved!–

    6and he raised us up together with him and seated us together with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

    7to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

    8For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;

  • Eph 5:14
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    14For everything made visible is light, and for this reason it says:“Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!”

  • Col 3:7
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    7You also lived your lives in this way at one time, when you used to live among them.

  • Rom 8:9-11
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    9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

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

    11Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.

  • Rom 6:11
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    11So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

  • Col 1:21-22
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    21Paul’s Goal in Ministry And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,

    22but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him–

  • Rom 6:7-8
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    7(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)

    8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

  • Col 3:3
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    3for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

  • Eph 5:8
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    8for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light–

  • Eph 1:20
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    20This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms

  • Eph 2:12-13
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    12that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

    13But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

  • Col 1:13-14
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    13He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,

    14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

  • 2 Cor 4:12
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    12As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

  • Rom 8:13
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    13(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

  • 1 Pet 1:3
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    3New Birth to Joy and Holiness Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

  • Rom 8:2
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    2For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you 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 that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.

    7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of his grace

  • Titus 3:5
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    5he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

  • Eph 2:10
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    10For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.

  • 1 Pet 1:21
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    21Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

  • 1 Pet 4:6
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    6Now it was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, so that though they were judged in the flesh by human standards they may live spiritually by God’s standards.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

  • Eph 2:22
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    22in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

  • Rom 6:4
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    4Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

  • Col 2:20
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    20If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

  • 2 Tim 1:9
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    9He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

  • Eph 2:18
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    18so that through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

  • Col 2:6
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    6Warnings Against the Adoption of False Philosophies Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,

  • Rom 6:2
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    2Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

  • 1 Cor 15:22
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    22For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

  • Eph 4:18
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    18They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

  • Eph 1:13
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    13And when you heard the word of truth(the gospel of your salvation)– when you believed in Christ– you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit,