Ephesians 2:1-13 ▼

1 Also you—being dead in trespasses and sins,

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

3 among whom we also all walked once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath—as also the others,

4 but God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

5 even being dead in the trespasses, made us alive together with the Christ (by grace you are saved),

6 and raised [us] up together, and sat [us] together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus,

7 that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,

8 for by grace you are saved, through faith, and this [is] not of yourselves—[it is] the gift of God,

9 not of works, that no one may boast;

10 for we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus on good works, which God prepared before, that we may walk in them.

11 For this reason, remember, that you [were] once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

12 that you were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God in the world;

13 but now, in Christ Jesus, you being once far off became near in the blood of the Christ,