Ephesians Chapter 2 verse 4 Holy Bible

Ephesians 2 : 4 Bible Verse Songs

• Mercy Rewrote My Life by Jimmy Swaggart
• What Mercy Did For Me by Charity Gayle + Joshua Sherman
• This Love by Housefires + Pat Barrett
• Steadfast by Gateway Worship
• This is What You Do by Bethel Music Kids
• Out of His Great Love by The Martins
• When Mercy Found Me by Rhett Walker
• Mercy by Lindy & The Circuit Riders
• Monument by Sarah Kroger
• Don't Deserve You by Plumb
• From The Inside Out / The Stand by Phil Wickham
• I Wanna Go Back by David Dunn
• On Top Of The World by Citipointe Worship
• Your Mercy by Paul Baloche
• Mercy's Shore by NeedToBreathe
• How Great Thou Art by Shane & Shane

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - But God, being rich in mercy. The preceding verses convey the idea of a rushing towards inevitable ruin - towards some frightful cataract, when all help from man is hopeless. Man's extremity becomes God's opportunity. The "but" is very emphatic, and wonderfully reverses the picture. The sovereignty of God is very apparent, on its gracious side. It interposes to rescue those who would otherwise plunge into irretrievable ruin. We have here the filling up of that Divine saying, "O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thine help." The genesis of salvation is declared to be in two of God's attributes, of which the first is mercy, or compassion. God has a tender, yearning feeling towards men brought to misery by their own sins. And this feeling is not shallow or spare - he is rich in mercy. It is an exuberant, full-flowing feeling in God ("Thy mercy ... is in the heavens," Psalm 36:5), and may therefore be appealed to trustfully. For his great love wherewith he loved us. The other attribute from which the plan of salvation sprang is God's love. Love is more than compassion. Compassion may be confined to the breast, but love goes forth in active beneficence. It makes common cause with its object. It cannot rest till its object is lint right. Two expressions are used intensifying this Divine love: (1) his great love; (2) love with which he loved us; the verb of love governing the noun of love makes the idea rich and strong. This view of the exuberance of the Divine attributes from which salvation has its rise is in harmony with the whole character of the Epistle.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Rich in mercy.--Not only merciful, but rich "in the multitude of mercy," as attaching even to those dead in sin (see Chrysostom on this passage). The idea of richness in grace, glory, mercy, is especially frequent in this Epistle. (See Ephesians 1:7; Ephesians 1:18; Ephesians 2:7; Ephesians 3:8; Ephesians 3:16.)For his great love.--Again, as in Ephesians 1:4, stress is laid on the love of God, before all else, as the one moving cause of salvation. (Comp. Romans 5:8, "God commendeth His love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.") . . .