2Ephesians 2

1You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,Select Ephesians 2:1

2in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;Select Ephesians 2:2

3among 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.Select Ephesians 2:3

4But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,Select Ephesians 2:4

5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),Select Ephesians 2:5

6and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,Select Ephesians 2:6

7that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;Select Ephesians 2:7

8for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,Select Ephesians 2:8

9not of works, that no one would boast.Select Ephesians 2:9

10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.Select Ephesians 2:10

11Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision”, (in the flesh, made by hands);Select Ephesians 2:11

12that you 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.Select Ephesians 2:12

13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.Select Ephesians 2:13

14For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,Select Ephesians 2:14

15having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;Select Ephesians 2:15

16and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.Select Ephesians 2:16

17He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.Select Ephesians 2:17

18For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.Select Ephesians 2:18

19So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,Select Ephesians 2:19

20being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;Select Ephesians 2:20

21in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;Select Ephesians 2:21

22in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.Select Ephesians 2:22