Ephesians 2:1-19 ▼

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

2 in 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,

3 among 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11 Therefore 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—

12 that 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.

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

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

15 having 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,

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

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

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

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