Ephesians 2–3

2And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins, ²wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience; ³among whom we also all once lived 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:— ⁴but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, ⁵even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved), ⁶and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus: ⁷that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus: ⁸for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; ⁹not of works, that no man should glory. ¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.

¹¹Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands; ¹²that ye 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. ¹³But now in Christ Jesus ye that once were far off are made nigh in the blood of Christ. ¹⁴For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition, ¹⁵having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, so making peace; ¹⁶and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: ¹⁷and he came and preached peace to you that were far off, and peace to them that were nigh: ¹⁸for through him we both have our access in one Spirit unto the Father. ¹⁹So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, ²⁰being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone; ²¹in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord; ²²in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

3For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,— ²if so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward; ³how that by revelation was made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote before in few words, ⁴whereby, when ye read, ye can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ; ⁵which in other generations was not made known unto the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; ⁶to wit, that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, ⁷whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power. ⁸Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; ⁹and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things; ¹⁰to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God, ¹¹according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: ¹²in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him. ¹³Wherefore I ask that ye may not faint at my tribulations for you, which are your glory.

¹⁴For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, ¹⁵from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, ¹⁶that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; ¹⁷that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, ¹⁸may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, ¹⁹and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

²⁰Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, ²¹unto him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all generations for ever and ever. Amen.