Key Verse Spotlight
Ephesians 2:4 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,”
Ephesians 2:4
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. {desires: Gr. wills}
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) {by...: or, by whose grace}
And hath raised {us} up together, and made {us} sit together in heavenly {places} in Christ Jesus:
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