Eph 2:1-3 is about being quickened from spiritual death. Before people are saved, they are dead in trespasses and sins.  According to Rom 5:12, this death came as a result of Adam’s transgression against Gen 2:17.  When Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and...

This passage has to do with how to handle trespasses. The trespasses here are usually doctrinal problems that would begin to affect others in the church if they were allowed to go on or they are sin problems that have to be dealt with in order to protect the rest...