एफिसि 2
1 तिमीहरू त आफ्ना अपराधहरू र पापहरूमा मरेका थियौ ।
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
2 यस संसारको रीतिअनुसार तिमीहरू यस्ता कुराहरूमा एकपल्ट हिँडेका थियौ । आकाशको शक्तिको शासक अनुसार तिमीहरू हिँडेका थियौ । यो त्यसको आत्मा हो, जो अनाज्ञाकारीताका सन्तानहरूमा काम गर्दछ । (aiōn g165)
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)
3 हामी एकपल्ट यी सबै अविश्वासीहरू सँगै थियौँ । हाम्रो शरीरको खराब इच्छा अनुसार हामी चल्थ्यौँ र शरीर र मनका इच्छा अनुसार काम गर्ने गर्थ्यौँ । हामी अरू मानिसहरू जस्तै स्वभावले क्रोधका सन्तान थियौँ ।
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.
4 तर परमेश्वरले आफ्नो महान् प्रेमले हामीलाई प्रेम गर्नुभएको कारण उहाँ दयामा धनी हुनुहुन्छ ।
But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
5 जब हामी आफ्ना अपराधहरूमा मरेका थियौँ, उहाँले हामी सबैलाई सँगै ख्रीष्टमा नयाँ जीवनमा ल्याउनुभयो । उहाँको अनुग्रहद्वारा तिमीहरू बचाइएका छौ ।
made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
6 ख्रीष्ट येशूमा हामीलाई परमेश्वरले उठाउनुभएको छ र स्वर्गीय स्थानहरूमा उहाँसँगै बसाल्नुभएको छ ।
And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
7 आउँदा दिनहरूमा उहाँको अनुग्रहको प्रशस्तता हामीलाई प्रकट गराउने हेतुले उहाँले यसो गर्नुभयो । ख्रीष्ट येशूमा उहाँको दयाद्वारा उहाँले यो देखाउनुहुन्छ । (aiōn g165)
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)
8 किनकि तिमीहरू अनुग्रहबाट विश्वासद्वारा बचाइएका छौ, र यो तिमीहरूबाट आएको होइन तर यो परमेश्वरको उपहार हो ।
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9 कामहरूबाट यो होइन, यसैकारण कसैले घमण्ड गर्न सक्दैन ।
not by works, so that no one can boast.
10 किनकि हामीहरू परमेश्वरले धेरै पहिले देखि नै योजना गर्नुभएको असल काम गर्नको निम्ति र हामीहरू ती बमोजिम हिडौँ भनेर ख्रीष्ट येशूमा सृजना गरिएका उहाँको हातका सिप हौँ ।
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
11 त्यसकारण यो कुरा सम्झ, कि एक समय तिमीहरू शरीरमा गैरयहूदीहरू थियौ । मानिसहरूका हातहरूबाट शरीरमा खतना भएकाहरूले तिमीहरूलाई “बेखातनाको” भनेर बोलाउँथे ।
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)—
12 किनकि त्यो समयमा तिमीहरू ख्रीष्टबाट अलगिएका थियौ । इस्राएलका मानिसहरूका निम्ति तिमीहरू परदेशी थियौ । तिमीहरू प्रतिज्ञाका करारबाट बिराना थियौ । तिमीहरूको भविष्यको कुनै निश्चयता थिएन । तिमीहरू परमेश्वर बिना यस संसारमा थियौ ।
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.
13 तिमीहरू एक समय परमेश्वरबाट टाढा भएकाहरू, अब येशू ख्रीष्टको रगतद्वारा ख्रीष्ट येशूमा परमेश्वरसँग नजिक ल्याइएका छौ ।
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
14 किनकि उहाँ हाम्रो शान्ति हुनुहुन्छ । उहाँले दुईलाई एक बनाउनुभयो । हामीलाई एक अर्कामा विभाजन गर्ने शत्रुताका पर्खालहरू उहाँको शरीरद्वारा भत्काइएका छन् ।
For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility
15 अर्थात्, उहाँमा नै एउटा नयाँ मानिस सृष्टि गर्न, उहाँले नियमहरू र आज्ञाहरूका कानुनलाई खारेज गरिदिनुभयो । उहाँले मिलाप गराउनुभयो ।
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
16 उहाँको क्रूसद्वारा दुई मानिसलाई परमेश्वरमा शरीरमा एक बनाउनको निम्ति उहाँले यो गर्नुभयो । क्रुससँगै उहाँले शत्रुतालाई नाश गर्नुभयो ।
and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.
17 येशू आउनुभयो र धेरै टाढा र नजिक भएकाहरूलाई उहाँले शान्तिको घोषणा गर्नुभयो ।
He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.
18 किनकि येशूद्वारा हामी दुवै एउटै आत्मामा पिताकहाँ जान सक्छौँ ।
For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
19 त्यसकारण, तिमी यहूदीहरू कोहीपनि नौलो मानिस वा परदेशी छैनौ । तर सबै परमेश्वरको निम्ति अलग गरिएकाहरू सँगै उहाँको राज्यको सँगी नागरिकहरू हौ र परमेश्वरको परिवारका सदस्यहरू हौ ।
Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
20 तिमीहरू प्रेरित र अगमवक्ताहरूको जग माथि बसालेर निर्माण गरिएका हौ । ख्रीष्ट येशू आफैँ कुने-ढुङ्गो हुनुहुन्छ ।
built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
21 येशू ख्रीष्टमा उहाँको सारा निर्माण मिल्दै जान्छ र प्रभुमा एउटै मन्दिरको रूपमा बढ्दै जान्छ ।
In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
22 अनि उहाँमा नै तिमीहरू पनि पवित्र आत्मामा परमेश्वरको वासस्थानको रूपमा सँगै निर्माण भइरहेका छौ ।
And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.
