What Does Ephesians 2:6 Mean?
And he raised us up together and seated us together in the places of the heavens, in the Anointed One, Jesus.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:THE KEY
The repeated Greek prefix for “with” binds raising and seating into one shared reality in Christ.
THE MEANING
You are described as already raised with Christ and seated with him in the heavenly places. Your present life is held in a shared belonging whose place is described as heavenly because it is “in Christ Jesus.”
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Your place with Christ is only a future hope, beginning after death.
THE ROOT
συνήγειρεν
synēgeiren
GROWS FROM
ἐγείρω
ἐγείρω (egeirō): to rouse, awaken, or raise.
“raised us up” in this verse is synēgeiren. This verb carries the sense of waking as well as raising, so the phrase opens onto awakening into shared life. The prefix συν- adds “with”: the raising is participation with Christ.
ALSO GROWS
egersis: a rising or resurrection
ἔγερσις
This noun from the same Greek stem names the act of rising, bringing resurrection into the sense of being raised together.
exegeirō: to raise up or rouse
ἐξεγείρω
This compound retains the ἐγείρω stem and makes the movement of being roused or raised explicit.
συνεκάθισεν
synekathisen
GROWS FROM
σύν
σύν (syn): with, together; a prefix marking shared action.
“together, in “made us sit together”” in this verse is synekathisen. The prefix appears on both coordinated actions: raised-with and seated-with. The shared participation is marked twice, binding the raising and the seating into one movement in Christ.
ALSO GROWS
synēgeiren: raised together
συνήγειρεν
The verse uses σύν in this first verb to mark the raising as shared with Christ.
synekathisen: seated together
συνεκάθισεν
The same prefix marks the seating as shared, carrying the togetherness from raising into place.
THE PATTERN
God’s raising carries the one lifted into shared life and a place of honor.
He raises the bowed one from the dust, and lifts the one in want from the ash heap; That he may settle him with the generous ones, with the generous ones of his people.He has pulled the mighty down from their seats, and lifted up the low.If then you were raised with the Anointed One, seek the things above, where he sits at the right hand of God.THE THREAD
Buried with him in the immersion, in which you have also been raised with him through trust in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.Colossians uses the same Greek verb family for being raised with Christ, with the same σύν (“with”) relationship. It places God’s raising of Christ and your shared rising together in one sentence, opening the force of “raised us up together.”
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