Ephesians 2:2-22 ▼

2 in which you⁺ used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

3 All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

4 But because of His great love {agapēn} for us {ēgapēsen}, God {Theos}, who is rich in mercy,

5 made us alive with Christ (the Anointed One) even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you⁺ have been saved!

6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ (the Anointed One) Jesus (YHWH saves),

7 in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ (the Anointed One) Jesus (YHWH saves).

8 For it is by grace you⁺ have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God {Theou},

9 not by works (acts), so that no one can boast.

10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ (the Anointed One) Jesus (YHWH saves) to do good works (acts), which God {Theos} prepared in advance as our way of life \which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them/.

11 Therefore remember that formerly you⁺ who are Gentiles {ethnē} in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body (flesh) by human hands)—

12 remember that at that time you⁺ were separate from Christ (the Anointed One), alienated from the commonwealth of Israel (He wrestles with God), and strangers to the covenants {diathēkōn} of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

13 But now in Christ (the Anointed One) Jesus (YHWH saves) you⁺ who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility

15 by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

16 and reconciling both of them to God {Theō} in one body through the cross, by which He put to death their hostility.

17 He came and preached peace to you⁺ who were far away and peace to those who were near.

18 For through Him we both have access to the Father {Patera} by one Spirit {Pneumati}.

19 Therefore you⁺ are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints (holy ones) and members of God’s household,

20 built on the foundation of the apostles (sent ones) and prophets, with Christ (the Anointed One) Jesus (YHWH saves) Himself as the cornerstone.

21 In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord {Kyriō}.

22 And in Him you⁺ too are being built together into a dwelling place for God {Theou} in His Spirit {Pneumati}.