Ephesians 2

1 [Unto] you also—being dead by your offences and sins,

and also you, he filleth, who were dead in your sins, and in your offences,

2 In which at one time ye walked, according to the age of the world, according to the prince of the authority of the air, of the spirit that now energiseth in the sons of disobedience, (aiōn g165)

in the which ye before walked, according to the worldliness of this world, and according to the pleasure of the prince potentate of the air, that spirit which is active in the children of disobedience: (aiōn g165)

3 Among whom also, we all, had our behaviour, at one time, in the covetings of our flesh, doing the things desired by the flesh and the mind, and were children, by nature, of anger—even as the rest, —

in which deeds we also, formerly, were conversant, in the cravings of our flesh; and we did the pleasure of our flesh, and of our mind, and were altogether the children of wrath, like the rest.

4 But, God, being rich in mercy, by reason of the great love wherewith he loved us,

But God who is rich in his mercies, because of the great love with which he loved us,

5 Although we were dead by our offences, gave us life together with the Christ, —by favour, ye have been saved, —

when we were dead in our sins, quickened us with the Messiah, and rescued us by his grace;

6 And raised us up together, and seated us together in the heavenlies, in Christ:

and resuscitated us with him, and seated us with him in heaven, in Jesus the Messiah:

7 That he might point out, in the oncoming ages, the surpassing riches of his favour in graciousness upon us, in Christ Jesus; (aiōn g165)

that he might show to the coming ages the magnitude of the riches of his grace, and his benignity towards us in Jesus the Messiah. (aiōn g165)

8 For, by his favour, have ye been saved, through means of faith, and this [hath come to pass] —not from you, of God, the free-gift!

For it is by his grace we are rescued, through faith; and this is not of yourselves, but it is the gift of God:

9 Not from works, lest anyone should boast.

not of works, lest any one glory.

10 His, in fact we are—his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus upon a footing of good works, which God prepared beforehand, that, therein, we might walk.

For we are his creation; who are created in Jesus the Messiah, for good works, which God hath before prepared for us to walk in.

11 Wherefore, keep in remembrance—that, at one time, ye, the nations in flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by the so-called Circumcision in flesh, made by hand,

Wherefore be mindful, that ye formerly were carnal Gentiles; and ye were called the uncircumcision, by that which is called the circumcision, and which is the work of the hands in the flesh.

12 That ye were, in that season, separate from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and godless in the world;

And ye were, at that time, without the Messiah; and were aliens from the regulations of Israel; and strangers to the covenant of the promise; and were without hope, and without God, in the world.

13 But, just now, in Christ Jesus, ye, who at one time were afar off, were made nigh in the blood of the Christ;

But now, by Jesus the Messiah, ye who before were afar off, have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.

14 He, in fact, is our peace—who made both one, and, the enclosing middle-wall, took down,

For he is himself our peace, who hath made the two become one, and hath demolished the wall which stood in the midst, and the enmity, by his flesh;

15 The enmity, in his flesh—the law of commandments in decrees—bringing to nought, —that, the two, he might create in himself, into one man of new mould, making peace.

and by his prescriptions he hath abolished the law of ordinances; that, in himself, he might make the two to be one new man; and he hath made peace,

16 And might fully reconcile them both, in one body, through means of the cross, —slaying the enmity thereby; —

and hath reconciled both with God, in one body, and hath slain the enmity by his cross.

17 And, coming, he announced the glad-message—of peace, unto you, the far off, and peace, unto them that were nigh;

And he came, and proclaimed peace to you afar off, and to those near:

18 Because, through him, we have our introduction—we both—in one Spirit, unto the Father.

because, by him there is access for us both, by one Spirit, unto the Father.

19 Hence, then—no longer, are ye strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and members of the household of God, —

Wherefore, ye are not strangers, nor sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.

20 Having been built up on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, there being, for chief corner stone, Jesus Christ himself, —

And ye are built upon the foundations of the legates and the prophets; and Jesus the Messiah hath become the head of the corner in the edifice.

21 In whom, an entire building, in process of being fitly joined together, is growing into a holy shrine in [the] Lord;

And in him all the edifice is framed together, and groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;

22 In whom, ye also, are being builded together, into a habitation of God in Spirit.

while ye also are builded in him, for a habitation of God through the Spirit.