Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

New American Standard Bible

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

King James Version

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Holman Bible

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us,

International Standard Version

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love for us

A Conservative Version

But God, being rich in mercy, through his great love that he loved us,

American Standard Version

but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Amplified

But God, being [so very] rich in mercy, because of His great and wonderful love with which He loved us,

An Understandable Version

But God, who has great love for us and abundant mercy [toward us],

Anderson New Testament

but God, being rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us,

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

then it was that God, who is rich in mercy, thro' his great love, wherewith he loved us,

Darby Translation

but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,

Godbey New Testament

but God, being rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us,

Goodspeed New Testament

But God is so rich in mercy that because of the great love he had for us,

John Wesley New Testament

But God who is rich in mercy,

Julia Smith Translation

But God, being rich in mercy, by his much love which he loved us,

King James 2000

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But God, which is rich in mercy through his great love wherewith he loved us,

Moffatt New Testament

But, dead in trespasses as we were, God was so rich in mercy that for his great love to us

Montgomery New Testament

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

but God, who is rich in mercy, on account of his great love wherewith he loved us, gave to us,

Sawyer New Testament

but God who is rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us,??5 even when we were dead in sins he made us alive with Christ,??y grace are you saved,

The Emphasized Bible

But, God, being rich in mercy, by reason of the great love wherewith he loved us,

Thomas Haweis New Testament

But God, being rich in mercy, through the great love with which he hath loved us,

Twentieth Century New Testament

Yet God, in his abundant compassion, and because of the great love with which he loved us,

Webster

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

Weymouth New Testament

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love which He bestowed on us,

Williams New Testament

But God, who is so rich in mercy on account of the great love He has for us,

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

but God, being rich in mercy, on account of His great love wherewith He loved us,

Worsley New Testament

But God being rich in mercy, through his great love wherewith He loved us,

Youngs Literal Translation

and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
But
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

who is
ὤν οὖσα ὄν 
On 
being, when ... was, which is, that is, not tr,
Usage: 128

πλούσιος 
Plousios 
Usage: 15

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

ἔλεος 
Eleos 
Usage: 25

for
διά 
Dia 
by, through, with, for, for ... sake, therefore , for this cause , because,
Usage: 527

his

Usage: 0

πολύς πολλός 
Polus 
Usage: 292

G26
ἀγάπη 
Agape 
Usage: 105

ὅς ἥ ὅ 
Hos 
Usage: 980

he loved
G25
ἀγαπάω 
Agapao 
Usage: 92

Devotionals

Devotionals about Ephesians 2:4

Devotionals containing Ephesians 2:4

Images Ephesians 2:4

Prayers for Ephesians 2:4

Context Readings

Made Alive In Christ

3 Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest. 4 But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us, 5 Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),


Cross References

Exodus 33:19

And he said, I will make all the light of my being come before you, and will make clear to you what I am; I will be kind to those to whom I will be kind, and have mercy on those on whom I will have mercy.

Romans 2:4

Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?

Ephesians 1:7

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

Ephesians 2:7

That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus:

Exodus 34:6-7

And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;

Deuteronomy 7:7-8

The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:

Deuteronomy 9:5-6

Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Nehemiah 9:17

And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

Psalm 51:1

Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.

Psalm 103:8-11

The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.

Isaiah 55:6-8

Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

Jeremiah 31:3

From far away he saw the Lord: my love for you is an eternal love: so with mercy I have made you come with me.

Ezekiel 16:6-8

And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life;

Daniel 9:9

With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him;

Jonah 4:2

And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.

Micah 7:18-20

Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

Luke 1:78

Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,

John 3:14-17

As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:

Romans 5:8

But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

Romans 5:20-21

And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

Romans 9:15-16

For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.

Romans 9:23

And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,

Romans 10:12

And the Jew is not different from the Greek: for there is the same Lord of all, who is good to all who have hope in his name:

Ephesians 3:8

To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:

1 Timothy 1:14

And the grace of our Lord was very great, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 1:9

Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Titus 3:4-7

But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen,

1 Peter 1:3

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 John 4:10-19

And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

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