Efésios 2
1 E vos vivificou, estando vós mortos pelas offensas e peccados,
To you Gentiles also, who were dead through your offences and sins,
2 Em que d'antes andastes segundo o curso d'este mundo, segundo o principe da potestade do ar, do espirito que agora opera nos filhos da desobediencia. (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 Entre os quaes todos nós tambem d'antes andavamos nos desejos da nossa carne, fazendo a vontade da carne e dos pensamentos; e eramos por natureza filhos da ira, como os outros tambem.
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 Porque Deus, que é riquissimo em misericordia, pelo seu muito amor com que nos amou,
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love which He bestowed on us,
5 Estando nós ainda mortos em nossas offensas, nos vivificou juntamente com Christo (pela graça sois salvos),
caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live with Christ--it is by grace that you have been saved--
6 E nos resuscitou juntamente, e nos fez assentar juntamente nos céus, em Christo Jesus;
raised us with Him from the dead, and enthroned us with Him in the heavenly realms as being in Christ Jesus,
7 Para mostrar nos seculos vindouros as abundantes riquezas da sua graça, pela sua benignidade para comnosco em Christo 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 Porque pela graça sois salvos, por meio da fé; e isto não vem de vós; é dom de Deus
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 Não vem das obras, para que ninguem se glorie.
so that it may be impossible for any one to boast.
10 Porque somos feitura sua, creados em Christo Jesus para as boas obras, as quaes Deus preparou para que andassemos n'ellas.
For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.
11 Portanto, lembrae-vos de que vós d'antes ereis gentios na carne, e chamados incircumcisão pelos que na carne se chamam circumcisão feita pela mão dos homens;
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 Que n'aquelle tempo estaveis sem Christo, separados da communidade d'Israel, e estranhos aos concertos da promessa, não tendo esperança, e sem Deus no mundo.
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 Mas agora em Christo Jesus, vós, que d'antes estaveis longe, já pelo sangue de Christo chegastes perto.
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were so far away have been brought near through the death of Christ.
14 Porque elle é a nossa paz, o qual de ambos os povos fez um; e, derribando a parede de separação que estava no meio,
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 Na sua carne desfez a inimizade, a saber, a lei dos mandamentos, que consistia em tradições, para crear em si mesmo os dois em um novo homem, fazendo a paz,
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 E pela cruz reconciliar com Deus a ambos em um corpo, matando n'ella as inimizades.
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 E, vindo, elle evangelizou a paz, a vós que estaveis longe, e aos que estavam perto;
So He came and proclaimed good news of peace to you who were so far away, and peace to those who were near;
18 Porque por elle ambos temos accesso em um mesmo Espirito ao Pae.
because it is through Him that Jews and Gentiles alike have access through one Spirit to the Father.
19 Assim que já não sois estrangeiros, nem forasteiros, mas concidadãos dos sanctos e domesticos de Deus;
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 Edificados sobre o fundamento dos apostolos e dos prophetas, de que Jesus Christo é a principal pedra da esquina;
You are a building which has been reared on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, the cornerstone being Christ Jesus Himself,
21 No qual todo o edificio, bem ajustado, cresce para templo sancto no Senhor.
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 No qual tambem vós juntamente sois edificados para morada de Deus em Espirito.
in whom you also are being built up together to become a fixed abode for God through the Spirit.
