Efesus 2:19

2:19 So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

Efesus 2:1

New Life Individually

2:1 And although you were ¹  dead ²  in your transgressions and sins,

1 Petrus 4:17

4:17 For it is time for judgment to begin, starting with the house ³  of God. And if it starts with us, what will be the fate ⁴  of those who are disobedient to the gospel of God?

¹ tn The adverbial participle “being” (ὄντας, ontas) is taken concessively.

² sn Chapter 2 starts off with a participle, although you were dead, that is left dangling. The syntax in Greek for vv. 1-3 constitutes one incomplete sentence, though it seems to have been done intentionally. The dangling participle leaves the readers in suspense while they wait for the solution (in v. 4) to their spiritual dilemma.

³ tn Grk “to begin from the house.”

⁴ tn Or “the end.”