Ephesians 2

1 and you, being dead in your offences and sins —

To you Gentiles also, who were dead through your offences and sins,

2 in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience: (aiōn g165)

which were once habitual to you while you walked in the ways of this world and obeyed the Prince of the powers of the air, the spirits that are now at work in the hearts of the sons of disobedience--to you God has given Life. (aiōn g165)

3 among whom we also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:

Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.

4 but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love which He bestowed on us,

5 (we too being dead in offences, ) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace, )

caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live with Christ--it is by grace that you have been saved--

6 and has raised [us] up together, and has made [us] sit down together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,

raised us with Him from the dead, and enthroned us with Him in the heavenly realms as being in Christ Jesus,

7 that he might display in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. (aiōn g165)

in order that, by His goodness to us in Christ Jesus, He might display in the Ages to come the transcendent riches of His grace. (aiōn g165)

8 For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is God's gift:

For it is by grace that you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves. It is God's gift, and is not on the ground of merit--

9 not on the principle of works, that no one might boast.

so that it may be impossible for any one to boast.

10 For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them.

For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.

11 Wherefore remember that ye, once nations in [the] flesh, who [are] called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in [the] flesh done with the hand;

Therefore, do not forget that formerly you were Gentiles as to your bodily condition. You were called the Uncircumcision by those who style themselves the Circumcised--their circumcision being one which the knife has effected.

12 that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

At that time you were living apart from Christ, estranged from the Commonwealth of Israel, with no share by birth in the Covenants which are based on the Promises, and you had no hope and no God, in all the world.

13 but now in Christ Jesus ye who once were afar off are become nigh by the blood of the Christ.

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

14 For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of enclosure,

For He is our peace--He who has made Jews and Gentiles one, and in His own human nature has broken down the hostile dividing wall,

15 having annulled the enmity in his flesh, the law of commandments in ordinances, that he might form the two in himself into one new man, making peace;

by setting aside the Law with its commandments, expressed, as they were, in definite decrees. His design was to unite the two sections of humanity in Himself so as to form one new man,

16 and might reconcile both in one body to God by the cross, having by it slain the enmity;

thus effecting peace, and to reconcile Jews and Gentiles in one body to God, by means of His cross--slaying by it their mutual enmity.

17 and, coming, he has preached the glad tidings of peace to you who [were] afar off, and [the glad tidings of] peace to those [who were] nigh.

So He came and proclaimed good news of peace to you who were so far away, and peace to those who were near;

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

because it is through Him that Jews and Gentiles alike have access through one Spirit to the Father.

19 So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

You are therefore no longer mere foreigners or persons excluded from civil rights. On the contrary you share citizenship with God's people and are members of His family.

20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner-stone,

You are a building which has been reared on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, the cornerstone being Christ Jesus Himself,

21 in whom all [the] building fitted together increases to a holy temple in the Lord;

in union with whom the whole fabric, fitted and closely joined together, is growing so as to form a holy sanctuary in the Lord;

22 in whom ye also are built together for a habitation of God in [the] Spirit.

in whom you also are being built up together to become a fixed abode for God through the Spirit.