Paul's Letter to the Ephesians, Chapter 2
{2:1} You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and
sins, {2:2} in which you once walked according to the course of this
world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit
who now works in the children of disobedience; {2:3} among whom we
also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the
flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as
the rest. {2:4} But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with
which he loved us, {2:5} even when we were dead through our
trespasses, made us alive together with Messiah (by grace you have
been saved), {2:6} and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with
him in the heavenly places in Messiah Yeshua, {2:7} that in the ages
to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness
toward us in Messiah Yeshua; {2:8} for by grace you have been saved
through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
{2:9} not of works, that no one would boast. {2:10} For we are his
workmanship, created in Messiah Yeshua for good works, which God
prepared before that we would walk in them.
{2:11} Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh,
who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called
"circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands); {2:12} that you were at
that time separate from Messiah, alienated from the commonwealth of
Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no
hope and without God in the world. {2:13} But now in Messiah Yeshua
you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Messiah.
{2:14} For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the
middle wall of partition, {2:15} having abolished in the flesh the
hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he
might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace; {2:16}
and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross,
having killed the hostility thereby. {2:17} He came and preached peace
to you who were far off and to those who were near. {2:18} For through
him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. {2:19} So
then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow
citizens with the holy ones, and of the household of God, {2:20} being
built on the foundation of the emissaries and prophets, Messiah Yeshua
himself being the chief cornerstone; {2:21} in whom the whole
building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
{2:22} in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in
the Spirit.
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