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