Ephesians

2 [Unto] you also—Being dead by your offences and sins,

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,

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,—

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

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

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

7 That he might point out in the oncoming ages The surpassing riches of his favour in graciousness upon us In Christ Jesus;

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!

9 Not from works, lest anyone should boast.

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.

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

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;

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

14 He in fact is our peace—Who made both one And the enclosing middle-wall took down

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.

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

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

18 Because through him we have our introduction—we both—in 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,—

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

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

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