Ephesians 2

1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

Also you—being dead in trespasses and sins,

2 in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience. (aiōn g165)

in which you once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience, (aiōn g165)

3 All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

among whom we also all walked once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath—as also the others,

4 But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

but God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

even being dead in the trespasses, made us alive together with the Christ (by grace you are saved),

6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

and raised [us] up together, and sat [us] together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus,

7 in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. (aiōn g165)

that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus, (aiōn g165)

8 For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

for by grace you are saved, through faith, and this [is] not of yourselves—[it is] the gift of God,

9 not by works, so that no one can boast.

not of works, that no one may boast;

10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

for we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus on good works, which God prepared before, that we may walk in them.

11 Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—

For this reason, remember, that you [were] once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

that you were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God in the world;

13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

but now, in Christ Jesus, you being once far off became near in the blood of the Christ,

14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility

for He is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of the partition of hostility,

15 by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

the enmity in His flesh, having done away [with] the Law of the commands in ordinances, that He might create the two into one new man in Himself, making peace,

16 and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.

and might reconcile both in one body to God through the Cross, having slain the enmity by it,

17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.

and having come, He proclaimed good news—peace to you—the far-off and the near,

18 For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

because through Him we have the access—we both—in one Spirit to the Father.

19 Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

Then, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the holy ones, and of the household of God,

20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being chief corner-[stone],

21 In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

in whom all the building fitly framed together increases to a holy temple in the LORD,

22 And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.

in whom you also are built together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.