Ephesians 2:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: ”

Ephesians 2:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For by grace are ye saved - By mere favor. It is not by your Own merit; it is not because you have any claim. This is a favorite doctrine with Paul, as it is with all who love the Lord Jesus in s...
Ephesians 2:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For by (h) grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: (h) So then, grace, that is to say, the gift of God, and faith, stand with one another, to which two...
Ephesians 2:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Christians are Raised and Exalted in the Risen and Exalted Christ by God's Free Grace and Gift. The recipients of the letter, like other people, had been (spiritually) dead by reason of the sins an...
Ephesians 2:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

through . Greek. dia . App-104. Ephesians 2:1 . faith . App-150. We are saved by grace, not by faith, which is the channel through ( dia ) which flows to us the Divine stream of saving grace. Bot...
Ephesians 2:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

8. For by grace are ye saved. This is an inference from the former statements. Having treated of election and of effectual calling, he arrives at this general conclusion, that they had obtai...
Ephesians 2:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2099 SALVATION BY GRACE NOT HOSTILE TO GOOD WORKS Ephesians 2:8-10 . By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man...
Ephesians 2:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: For by grace are ye saved, through faith - As ye are now brought into a state of salvation, your sins bei...
Ephesians 2:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

By grace are ye saved through faith;— He that reads St. Paul with attention, cannot but observe, that, speaking of the Gentiles, he calls their being brought back again from their apostacy into the...
Ephesians 2:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: For - illustrating 'the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness.' He emphatically recurs to the t...
Ephesians 2:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Gentiles and Jews are now One in Chirst 1-10. Further illustration of God 's power. He raised both Gentiles and Jews from the death of sin and exalted them to Christ's side.
Ephesians 2:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

By grace are ye saved through faith. — Properly, ye have been saved; ye were saved at first, and continue in a state of salvation. In Ephesians 2:5 this thought is introduced parenthetically, n...
Ephesians 2:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 8 SAVED FOR AN END Ephesians 2:7-10 The plan which God has formed for men in Christ is of great dimensions every way, -in its length no less than in its breadth and height. He "raised...
Ephesians 2:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

What Grace Has Done Ephesians 2:1-10 Evidently dead men may walk; that is, they may be dead to the eternal world but alive to this world, which is moving past like the films of a moving picture...
Ephesians 2:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The next subject is the edification or building of the Church. The materials of the building are found amid things which are absolutely opposed to the will and purpose of God. From this material God,...
Ephesians 2:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(7) That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. (8) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: i...
Ephesians 2:8 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

GOD’S WORKMANSHIP ‘For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Chris...
Ephesians 2:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For by grace are ye saved ,.... This is to be understood, not of temporal salvation, nor of preservation in Christ, nor of providential salvation in order to calling, and much less of being put in a...
Ephesians 2:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Ver. 8. For by grace ye are saved ] So Ephesians 2:5 , and everywhere almost St Paul is a most const...
Ephesians 2:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

That in the ages to come As if he had said, His great design in doing all this for us is, that in all succeeding ages, under the dispensation of the gospel, he might show Might demonstrate and di...
Ephesians 2:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

BELIEVERS CHANGED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH (vs.1-10) The first three verse of chapter 2 go back to consider the state and circumstances from which the Ephesians had been brought, the same sad state...
Ephesians 2:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Change Wrought in the Ephesians. A. D. 61. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his grea...
Ephesians 2:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For by grace, the free favour of God, as Ephesians 2:5 , are ye, even ye Ephesians, Gentiles, who had not such promises made to you as the Jews had, Ephesians 2:12 , saved, from first to...
Ephesians 2:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘For by grace you are those who are saved, through faith, and this not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.' This links back to ‘in Christ Jesus'. We are in...
Ephesians 2:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Ephesians 2:4 . But God, who is rich in mercy. —“Unto all that call upon Him” ( Romans 10:12 ). “He hath shut up all into disobedience, that He might have mercy up...
Ephesians 2:8 - Scofield Reference Notes

grace Grace (in salvation). Ephesians 5, 7, 8; ( Colossians 1:6 ); ( Romans 3:24 ); ( John 1:17 ). ( See Scofield) - ( John 1:17 ). saved See note, ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 1:16...
Ephesians 2:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ephesians 2:8 Salvation by Grace. I. To Paul the doctrine of justification by faith was not a final statement of Christian truth. It was not a formula which could be used mechanically for constru...
Ephesians 2:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Ephesians 2:1 . And you he hath quickened. Is it so? Could the apostle say that to you, and to me? Ephesians 2:1 . Who were dead in trespasses and sins; Look back to what you used to be, to...
Ephesians 2:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ephesians 2:1 . You hath he quickened. The word quickened is not in the Greek, but the old Latin version repeats it here from the fifth verse, presuming it to be implied. It reads well without it,...
Ephesians 2:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ephesians 2:1-49 SPIRITUAL HISTORY OF THE EPHESIANS . This passage corresponds to Genesis 1:1 . It is a history of creation, and we note the same great stages. 1. C...
Ephesians 2:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

God's grace manifested toward the sinners:
Ephesians 2:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 5:10-12 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:9 ; Acts 13:39 ; Acts 14:27 ; Acts 15:7-9 ; Acts 16:14 ; Acts 16:31 ; Colossians 2:12 ; Ephesians 1:19 ; Ephesians 2:10 ; Ephesians 2:5 ; Galatians 3:14...
Ephesians 2:8 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Grace in Operation Ephesians 2:1-12 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We know of no Scripture which more beautifully sets forth God's grace than Ephesians, chapter 2. The chapter begins with what we were in...
Ephesians 2:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

By grace ye are saved through faith — Grace, without any respect to human worthiness, confers the glorious gift. Faith, with an empty hand, and without any pretence to personal desert, receives the...

Ephesians 2:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ephesians 2:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ephesians 2:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ephesians 2:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ephesians 2:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ephesians 2:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Ephesians 2:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ephesians 2:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ephesians 2:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ephesians 2:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ephesians 2:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ephesians 2:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ephesians 2:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ephesians 2:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ephesians 2:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ephesians 2:8 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Ephesians 2:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ephesians 2:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ephesians 2:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ephesians 2:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Ephesians 2:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ephesians 2:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ephesians 2:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ephesians 2:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ephesians 2:8 - Scofield Reference Notes

Ephesians 2:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ephesians 2:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Ephesians 2:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ephesians 2:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ephesians 2:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ephesians 2:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 2:8 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Ephesians 2:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes