Ephesians 2
1 And you [did he make alive], when ye were dead through your trespasses and
sins,
2 wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the
prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of
disobedience;
3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust 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 but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with
Christ (by grace have ye been saved),
6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly
[places], 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:
8 for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, [it
is] the gift of God;
9 not of works, that no man should glory.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God
afore prepared that we should walk in them.
11 Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called
Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by
hands;
12 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 in Christ Jesus ye that once were far off are made nigh in the blood
of Christ.
14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of
partition,
15 having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments
[contained] in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new
man, [so] making peace;
16 and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having
slain the enmity thereby:
17 and he came and preached peace to you that were far off, and peace to them
that were nigh:
18 for through him we both have our access in one Spirit unto the Father.
19 So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens
with the saints, and of the household of God,
20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus
himself being the chief corner stone;
21 in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy
temple in the Lord;
22 in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.