Translation - Ephesians Ch. 2

Chapter 2 is now done! 

Chapter 2

Saved From Sin to Life- 2:1-10

¹And you all were dead in your trespasses and sins ²in which you all once walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler with authority of the air, the wind that is now working among the sons of disobedience

³in who also we all formerly lived in the desires of the flesh, doing the will of the flesh and minds, and were by nature children destined for wrath, even as the rest, ⁴but God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵and when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive with Christ – by grace you have been saved- ⁶and raised us together and seated us together in the heavens in Christ Jesus, ⁷so that He might show in the ages to come the surpassing riches of His grace in goodness upon us in Christ Jesus. ⁸For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves, it is the gift from God, ⁹not from works, so that no one may glory. ¹⁰For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand, so that we would walk in them.

One in Christ- 2:11-22

¹¹Therefore keeping conscious that once you all, the nations in the flesh, those who are called ‘uncircumcision’ by the one called ‘circumcision’, which is performed by hands in the flesh; ¹²remember that you were at that seasons apart from Christ, alienated from citizenship in Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope and without God in the world. ¹³But now in Christ Jesus you all who once were far away have become near through Christ’s blood.

¹⁴For He Himself is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the partition of the dividing wall, which is the enmity, in His flesh ¹⁵by abolishing the Law of commandments consisting in ordnances, so that in Him He might make the two into one new man, thereby establishing peace, ¹⁶and might reconcile them both in one body for God through the cross, having in Him killed the enmity. ¹⁷And He came and proclaimed peace to you all who were far away and to you all who were near, ¹⁸because through Him we have both have access in one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹Consequently therefore, you all are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you all are fellow citizens with the holy ones and are members of the household of God, ²⁰having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, ²¹in whom the whole building, being joined together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, ²²in whom you all also are being built together into a dwelling place of God through the Spirit.