Ephesians 2:14–3:13

¹⁴For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of enclosure, ¹⁵having annulled the enmity in his flesh, the law of commandments in ordinances, that he might form the two in himself into one new man, making peace; ¹⁶and might reconcile both in one body to God by the cross, having by it slain the enmity; ¹⁷and, coming, he has preached the glad tidings of peace to you who were afar off, and the glad tidings of peace to those who were nigh. ¹⁸For through him we have both access by one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God, ²⁰being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner-stone, ²¹in whom all the building fitted together increases to a holy temple in the Lord; ²²in whom ye also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

Chapter 3

¹For this reason I Paul, prisoner of the Christ Jesus for you nations, ²(if indeed ye have heard of the administration of the grace of God which has been given to me towards you, ³that by revelation the mystery has been made known to me, (according as I have written before briefly, ⁴by which, in reading it, ye can understand my intelligence in the mystery of the Christ,) ⁵which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the power of the Spirit, ⁶that they who are of the nations should be joint heirs, and a joint body, and joint partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus by the glad tidings; ⁷of which I am become minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me, according to the working of his power. ⁸To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of the Christ, ⁹and to enlighten all with the knowledge of what is the administration of the mystery hidden throughout the ages in God, who has created all things, ¹⁰in order that now to the principalities and authorities in the heavenlies might be made known through the assembly the all-various wisdom of God, ¹¹according to the purpose of the ages, which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord, ¹²in whom we have boldness and access in confidence by the faith of him. ¹³Wherefore I beseech you not to faint through my tribulations for you, which is your glory.