Ephesians 2

1 You yourselves were once dead because of your offences and sins.

And you [did he quicken], when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,

2 For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the powers of the air – the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient. (aiōn g165)

wherein aforetime ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience; (aiōn g165)

3 And it was among them that we all once lived our lives, indulging the cravings of our earthly nature, and carrying out the desires prompted by that earthly nature and by our own thoughts. Our nature exposed us to the divine wrath, like the rest of humanity.

among whom we also all once lived 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: —

4 Yet God, in his abundant compassion, and because of the great love with which he loved us,

but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

5 even though we were dead because of our offences, gave life to us in giving life to the Christ. (By God’s loving kindness you have been saved.)

even when we were dead through our trespasses, quickened us together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),

6 And, through our union with Christ Jesus, God raised us with him, and caused us to sit with him on high,

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

7 in order that, by his goodness to us in Christ Jesus, he might display in the ages to come the boundless wealth of his loving kindness. (aiōn g165)

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

8 For it is by God’s loving kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God’s.

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:

9 It is not due to obedience to Law, so that no one can boast.

not of works, that no man should glory.

10 For we are God’s handiwork, created, by our union with Christ Jesus, for the good actions in doing which God had pre-arranged that we should spend our lives.

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

11 Remember, therefore, that you were once Gentiles yourselves, as your bodies showed; you were called “the Uncircumcised” by those who were called “the Circumcised” – circumcised only by human hands!

Wherefore remember, that aforetime ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

12 Remember that you were at that time far from Christ; you were shut out from the citizenship of Israel; you were strangers to the covenants founded on God’s promise; you were in the world without hope and without God.

that ye 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.

13 But now, through your union with Christ Jesus, you who once were far off have, by the shedding of the blood of the Christ, been brought near.

But now in Christ Jesus ye that once were far off are made nigh in the blood of Christ.

14 He it is who is our peace. He made the two divisions of humanity one, broke down the barrier that separated them,

For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,

15 and in his human nature put an end to the cause of enmity between them – the Law with its injunctions and ordinances – in order to create, through union with himself, from Jew and Gentile, one new humanity and so make peace.

having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the twain one new man, [so] making peace;

16 And when, on the cross, he had destroyed their mutual enmity, he sought by means of his cross to reconcile them both to God, united in one body.

and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

17 He came with the good news of peace for you who were far off, and of peace for those who were near;

and he came and preached peace to you that were far off, and peace to them that were nigh:

18 for it is through him that we, the Jews and the Gentiles, united in the one Spirit, are now able to approach the Father.

for through him we both have our access in one Spirit unto the Father.

19 It follows, then, that you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but are fellow citizens with Christ’s people and members of God’s household.

So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

20 You have been built up on the foundation laid by the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.

being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone;

21 United in him, every part of the building, closely joined together, will grow into a temple, consecrated by its union with the Lord.

in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;

22 And, through union in him, you also are being built up together, to be a place where God lives through the Spirit.

in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.