Alive with Christ
(Colossians 2:6–23)

1And you⁺, being dead in your⁺ trespasses and sins— 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, 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 God, being rich in mercy, because of His much love with which He loved us, 5even us being dead in trespasses, made us alive with Christ—by grace you⁺ are saved— 6and He raised us up together and seated us together in the heavenly realms 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 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 may boast. 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
(Philippians 2:1–4)

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— 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⁺, the ones once being far off, became near by the blood of Christ.

14For He Himself is our peace, having made both one and having broken down the middle wall of the partition, the hostility, 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 that He might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross, having put to death the hostility by it.

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 in one Spirit to the Father.

Christ Our Cornerstone
(Isaiah 28:14–22; 1 Corinthians 3:10–15; 1 Peter 2:1–8)

19So then, you⁺ are no longer strangers and aliens, but you⁺ are fellow citizens of the saints and of the household of God, 20having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus† Himself being the cornerstone, 21in whom all the building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22in whom you⁺ also are being built together into a habitation of God in the Spirit.

Footnotes:

10 Or which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
17 F35 to us
17 BYZ and TR do not include and peace
20 BYZ and TR Jesus Christ