एफिसि 2
1 तिमीहरू त आफ्ना अपराधहरू र पापहरूमा मरेका थियौ ।
You yourselves were once dead because of your offences 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)
For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the powers of the air – the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient. (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 ।
And it was among them that we all once lived our lives, indulging the cravings of our earthly nature, and carrying out the desires prompted by that earthly nature and by our own thoughts. Our nature exposed us to the divine wrath, like the rest of humanity.
4 तर परमेश्वरले आफ्नो महान् प्रेमले हामीलाई प्रेम गर्नुभएको कारण उहाँ दयामा धनी हुनुहुन्छ ।
Yet God, in his abundant compassion, and because of the great love with which he loved us,
5 जब हामी आफ्ना अपराधहरूमा मरेका थियौँ, उहाँले हामी सबैलाई सँगै ख्रीष्टमा नयाँ जीवनमा ल्याउनुभयो । उहाँको अनुग्रहद्वारा तिमीहरू बचाइएका छौ ।
even though we were dead because of our offences, gave life to us in giving life to the Christ. (By God’s loving kindness you have been saved.)
6 ख्रीष्ट येशूमा हामीलाई परमेश्वरले उठाउनुभएको छ र स्वर्गीय स्थानहरूमा उहाँसँगै बसाल्नुभएको छ ।
And, through our union with Christ Jesus, God raised us with him, and caused us to sit with him on high,
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, by his goodness to us in Christ Jesus, he might display in the ages to come the boundless wealth of his loving kindness. (aiōn g165)
8 किनकि तिमीहरू अनुग्रहबाट विश्वासद्वारा बचाइएका छौ, र यो तिमीहरूबाट आएको होइन तर यो परमेश्वरको उपहार हो ।
For it is by God’s loving kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God’s.
9 कामहरूबाट यो होइन, यसैकारण कसैले घमण्ड गर्न सक्दैन ।
It is not due to obedience to Law, 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 handiwork, created, by our union with Christ Jesus, for the good actions in doing which God had pre-arranged that we should spend our lives.
11 त्यसकारण यो कुरा सम्झ, कि एक समय तिमीहरू शरीरमा गैरयहूदीहरू थियौ । मानिसहरूका हातहरूबाट शरीरमा खतना भएकाहरूले तिमीहरूलाई “बेखातनाको” भनेर बोलाउँथे ।
Remember, therefore, that you were once Gentiles yourselves, as your bodies showed; you were called “the Uncircumcised” by those who were called “the Circumcised” – circumcised only 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 you were at that time far from Christ; you were shut out from the citizenship of Israel; you were strangers to the covenants founded on God’s promise; you were in the world without hope and without God.
13 तिमीहरू एक समय परमेश्वरबाट टाढा भएकाहरू, अब येशू ख्रीष्टको रगतद्वारा ख्रीष्ट येशूमा परमेश्वरसँग नजिक ल्याइएका छौ ।
But now, through your union with Christ Jesus, you who once were far off have, by the shedding of the blood of the Christ, been brought near.
14 किनकि उहाँ हाम्रो शान्ति हुनुहुन्छ । उहाँले दुईलाई एक बनाउनुभयो । हामीलाई एक अर्कामा विभाजन गर्ने शत्रुताका पर्खालहरू उहाँको शरीरद्वारा भत्काइएका छन् ।
He it is who is our peace. He made the two divisions of humanity one, broke down the barrier that separated them,
15 अर्थात्, उहाँमा नै एउटा नयाँ मानिस सृष्टि गर्न, उहाँले नियमहरू र आज्ञाहरूका कानुनलाई खारेज गरिदिनुभयो । उहाँले मिलाप गराउनुभयो ।
and in his human nature put an end to the cause of enmity between them – the Law with its injunctions and ordinances – in order to create, through union with himself, from Jew and Gentile, one new humanity and so make peace.
16 उहाँको क्रूसद्वारा दुई मानिसलाई परमेश्वरमा शरीरमा एक बनाउनको निम्ति उहाँले यो गर्नुभयो । क्रुससँगै उहाँले शत्रुतालाई नाश गर्नुभयो ।
And when, on the cross, he had destroyed their mutual enmity, he sought by means of his cross to reconcile them both to God, united in one body.
17 येशू आउनुभयो र धेरै टाढा र नजिक भएकाहरूलाई उहाँले शान्तिको घोषणा गर्नुभयो ।
He came with the good news of peace for you who were far off, and of peace for those who were near;
18 किनकि येशूद्वारा हामी दुवै एउटै आत्मामा पिताकहाँ जान सक्छौँ ।
for it is through him that we, the Jews and the Gentiles, united in the one Spirit, are now able to approach the Father.
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 ।
It follows, then, that you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but are fellow citizens with Christ’s people and members of God’s household.
20 तिमीहरू प्रेरित र अगमवक्ताहरूको जग माथि बसालेर निर्माण गरिएका हौ । ख्रीष्ट येशू आफैँ कुने-ढुङ्गो हुनुहुन्छ ।
You have been built up on the foundation laid by the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
21 येशू ख्रीष्टमा उहाँको सारा निर्माण मिल्दै जान्छ र प्रभुमा एउटै मन्दिरको रूपमा बढ्दै जान्छ ।
United in him, every part of the building, closely joined together, will grow into a temple, consecrated by its union with the Lord.
22 अनि उहाँमा नै तिमीहरू पनि पवित्र आत्मामा परमेश्वरको वासस्थानको रूपमा सँगै निर्माण भइरहेका छौ ।
And, through union in him, you also are being built up together, to be a place where God lives through the Spirit.
