Ephesians 2

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

And so God has given life to you Gentiles also, who were once dead in your trespasses and sins,

2 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)

in which you passed your lives after the way of this world, under the sway of the Prince of the Powers of the Air, the spirit who is now working among the sons of disobedience. (aiōn g165)

3 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.

And among them we all once passed our lives, indulging the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of our senses and temperament, and were by nature the children of wrath like all the rest.

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

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

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

even while we were dead in our trespasses, made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved).

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

together with him He raised us from the dead, and together with Christ Jesus seated us in the heavenly realm,

7 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)

in order that he might show to the ages to come the amazing riches of his grace by his goodness to us in Christ Jesus. (aiōn g165)

8 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--

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is God’s gift.

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

It is not of works, so that any one can boast of it;

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

for we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good deeds, which God predestined us to make our daily way of life.

11 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.

Do not forget then, that you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by the "circumcision" made in flesh by man’s hand,

12 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.

were once upon a time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenants of the Promise, without hope and without God in the world.

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

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

14 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,

For he is our Peace, who has made the two of us Jew and Gentile one, and has broken down the party-wall of partition between us.

15 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,

In his own body he abolished the cause of our enmity, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, in order to make the two into one new man in himself, so making peace.

16 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.

Thus he reconciled us both in one body to God by his cross, on which he slew our enmity.

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

So he came preaching "Peace" to you Gentiles who were afar off, and "Peace" to us Jews who were near;

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

because it is through him that we both have access in one spirit to the Father.

19 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.

Take notice then that no longer are you strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household.

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

You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone.

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

In him the whole building, fitly framed together, rises into a holy temple in the Lord;

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

and in him you, too, are continuously built together for a dwelling- place of God through his Spirit.