2
1 You
were made alive when
you were dead
in transgressions
and sins,
2 in
which you once
walked according
to the course of
this world,
according to
the prince of the
power of the air,
the spirit who
now works in
the children
of disobedience.
3 We
also all once
lived among them
in the lusts
of our flesh,
doing the desires
of the flesh
and of the
mind, and were
by nature children
of wrath, even
as the rest.
4 But
God, being rich
in mercy, for
his great love
with which he loved
us,
5 even
when we were
dead through our
trespasses, made
us alive together
with Christ—by
grace you have
been saved—
6 and
raised us up
with him, and
made us to sit
with him in
the heavenly places
in Christ Jesus,
7 that
in the ages to
come he might
show the exceeding
riches of his
grace in kindness
toward us in
Christ Jesus;
8 for
by grace you
have been saved
through faith, and
that not of
yourselves; it is
the gift of
God,
9 not
of works, that
no one would
boast.
10 For
we are his
workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus
for good works,
which God prepared
before that we
would walk in
them.
11 Therefore
remember that once
you, the Gentiles
in the flesh,
who are
called “uncircumcision” by
that which is
called “circumcision” (in
the flesh, made
by hands),
12 that
you were at
that time separate
from Christ, alienated
from the
commonwealth of
Israel, and
strangers from the
covenants of the
promise, having no
hope and without
God in the
world.
13 But
now in Christ
Jesus you who
once were far
off are made
near in the blood
of Christ.
14 For
he is our
peace, who made
both one, and
broke down
the middle wall
of separation,
15 having
abolished in his
flesh the
hostility, the law
of commandments contained
in ordinances,
that he might
create in himself
one new man
of the two,
making peace,
16 and
might reconcile them
both in one
body to God
through the cross,
having killed the
hostility through
it.
17 He
came and preached
peace to you
who were far
off and to
those who were
near.
18 For
through him we
both have our
access in one
Spirit to the
Father.
19 So
then you are
no longer
strangers and
foreigners, but
you are fellow
citizens with
the saints and of
the household of
God,
20 being
built on the
foundation of
the apostles and
prophets, Christ
Jesus himself being
the chief cornerstone;
21 in
whom the whole
building, fitted
together, grows into
a holy temple in
the Lord;
22 in
whom you also
are built together
for a habitation
of God in
the Spirit.