Ephesians Chapter 2 Back Next{2:1} You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
{2:2} 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;
{2:3} among whom we also all once lived in the
lust of our
flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
{2:4} But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
{2:5} even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with
Christ (by
grace you have been saved),
{2:6} and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ
Jesus,
{2:7} that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
{2:8} for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the
gift of God,
{2:9} not of works, that no one would boast.
{2:10} For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
{2:11} 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);
{2:12} 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.
{2:13} But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the
blood of Christ.
{2:14} For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,
{2:15} having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the
law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;
{2:16} and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the
cross, having killed the hostility thereby.
{2:17} He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.
{2:18} For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the
Father.
{2:19} So then you are no longer strangers and
foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
{2:20} being built on the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief
cornerstone;
{2:21} in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
{2:22} in whom you also are built together for a
habitation of God in the Spirit.
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