Ephesians 2

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Alive with Christ

¹And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

¹And you, being dead in your trespasses and sins—

²in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

²in which once you walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience,

³All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

³among whom we all also once conducted ourselves in the desires of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of its thoughts; and we were by nature children of wrath even as the rest.

⁴But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

⁴But God, being rich in mercy, because of His much love with which He loved us,

⁵made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

⁵even us being dead in trespasses, made us alive with Christ—by grace you are saved—

⁶And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

⁶and He raised us up together and seated us together in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

⁷in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

⁷so that in the ages that are coming, He might display the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

⁸For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

⁸For by grace you are saved through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

⁹not by works, so that no one can boast.

⁹not by works, so that no one may boast.

¹⁰For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.^a

¹⁰For we are His workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

One in Christ

¹¹Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—

¹¹Therefore remember that once you—the Gentiles in the flesh, the ones being called the uncircumcision by that being called the circumcision, done by hands in the flesh—

¹²remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

¹²that at that time you were apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, not having hope and without God in the world.

¹³But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

¹³But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones once being far off, became near by the blood of Christ.

¹⁴For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility

¹⁴For He Himself is our peace, having made both one and having broken down the middle wall of the partition, the hostility,

¹⁵by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

¹⁵having annulled in His flesh the law of commandments in decrees, so that He might create in Himself the two into one new man, making peace,

¹⁶and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He put to death their hostility.

¹⁶and that He might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross, having put to death the hostility by it.

¹⁷He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.

¹⁷And having come, He preached good news: peace to you, the ones far off, and peace to those near.

¹⁸For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

¹⁸For through Him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

Christ Our Cornerstone

¹⁹Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

¹⁹So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens of the saints and of the household of God,

²⁰built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

²⁰having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone,

²¹In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

²¹in whom all the building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

²²And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.

²²in whom you also are being built together into a habitation of God in the Spirit.