Ephesians 2

1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

To you Gentiles also, who were dead through your offences and sins,

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. (aiōn g165)

which were once habitual to you while you walked in the ways of this world and obeyed the Prince of the powers of the air, the spirits that are now at work in the hearts of the sons of disobedience--to you God has given Life. (aiōn g165)

3 We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.

4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love which He bestowed on us,

5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live with Christ--it is by grace that you have been saved--

6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

raised us with Him from the dead, and enthroned us with Him in the heavenly realms as being in Christ Jesus,

7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus; (aiōn g165)

in order that, by His goodness to us in Christ Jesus, He might display in the Ages to come the transcendent riches of His grace. (aiōn g165)

8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

For it is by grace that you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves. It is God's gift, and is not on the ground of merit--

9 not of works, that no one would boast.

so that it may be impossible for any one to boast.

10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.

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),

Therefore, do not forget that formerly you were Gentiles as to your bodily condition. You were called the Uncircumcision by those who style themselves the Circumcised--their circumcision being one which the knife has effected.

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.

At that time you were living apart from Christ, estranged from the Commonwealth of Israel, with no share by birth in the Covenants which are based on the Promises, and you had no hope and no God, in all the world.

13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were so far away have been brought near through the death of Christ.

14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,

For He is our peace--He who has made Jews and Gentiles one, and in His own human nature has broken down the hostile dividing wall,

15 having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,

by setting aside the Law with its commandments, expressed, as they were, in definite decrees. His design was to unite the two sections of humanity in Himself so as to form one new man,

16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it.

thus effecting peace, and to reconcile Jews and Gentiles in one body to God, by means of His cross--slaying by it their mutual enmity.

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

So He came and proclaimed good news of peace to you who were so far away, and peace to those who were near;

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

because it is through Him that Jews and Gentiles alike have access through one Spirit to the Father.

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

You are therefore no longer mere foreigners or persons excluded from civil rights. On the contrary you share citizenship with God's people and are members of His family.

20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

You are a building which has been reared on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, the cornerstone being Christ Jesus Himself,

21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

in union with whom the whole fabric, fitted and closely joined together, is growing so as to form a holy sanctuary in the Lord;

22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

in whom you also are being built up together to become a fixed abode for God through the Spirit.