11 translations · Greek

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

World English Bible

Ephesians 2:5 in 11 translations

WEB World English Bible
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
KJV King James Version
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
BSB Berean Standard Bible
made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
ASV American Standard Version
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),
LSV Literal Standard Version
even being dead in the trespasses, made us alive together with the Christ (by grace you are saved),
FBV Free Bible Version
even while we were dead in our sins, has made us alive together with Christ. Trusting in him has saved you!
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)
DBY Darby Translation
(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)
WBT Webster’s Bible
Even when we were dead in sins, hath made us alive together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together in Christ, (by whose grace you are saved,)

The Greek words

Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.

Word Transliteration English (BSB) Strong’s
καὶ kai even when G2532 καί and
ὄντας ontas were G1510 εἰμί to be
ἡμᾶς hēmas we G1473 ἐγώ I/we
νεκροὺς nekrous dead G3498 νεκρός dead
τοῖς tois in our G3588 ὁ the/this/who
παραπτώμασιν paraptōmasin trespasses G3900 παράπτωμα trespass
συνεζωοποίησεν synezōopoiēsen made [us] alive with G4806 συζωοποιέω to make alive with
τῷ tō — G3588 ὁ the/this/who
Χριστῷ Christō Christ G5547 Χριστός Christ
χάριτί chariti [It is] by grace G5485 χάρις grace
ἐστε este you have been G1510 εἰμί to be
σεσῳσμένοι sesōsmenoi saved G4982 σῴζω to save
  • Romans 3:24

    being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

  • Ephesians 2:8

    for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

  • Romans 5:8

    But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

  • Romans 5:10

    For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

  • Acts 15:11

    But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”

  • Romans 8:2

    For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

  • Ephesians 2:1

    You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

  • Titus 2:11

    For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

  • Ephesians 5:14

    Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

  • Romans 4:16

    For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.

In context

3 among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

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

5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

Read all of Ephesians 2 in the World English Bible.

Edition and source notes

Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.

Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.

The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.

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