Chapter 2 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
wherein time passed ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the
prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the
children of disobedience.
Among whom also we all have our conversation in times past, in the lusts
of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by
nature the children of wrath, even as others.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ,
by grace ye are saved, and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in
heavenly places, in Christ Jesus.
That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his
kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift
of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God
hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Wherefore remember that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called
uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands,
that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of
Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without
God in the world.
But now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of
Christ.
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall
of partition between us, having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of
commandments contained in ordinances.
For to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the
enmity thereby, and came and preached peace to you which were afar off,
and to them that were nigh.
For through him we both have access by one spirit unto the Father.
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the
saints, and of the household of God, and are built upon the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone,
in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in
the Lord, in whom ye also are builded together for inhabitation of God through
the Spirit.