²Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief:

³In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:

⁴But God (who is rich in mercy) for his exceeding charity wherewith he loved us

⁵Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together in Christ (by whose grace you are saved)

⁶And hath raised us up together and hath made us sit together in the heavenly places, through Christ Jesus.

⁷That he might shew in the ages to come the abundant riches of his grace, in his bounty towards us in Christ Jesus.

⁸For by grace you are saved through faith: and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God.

⁹Not of works, that no man may glory.

¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them.

¹¹For which cause be mindful that you, being heretofore Ephesians 2:11 (D-R): gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands:

¹²That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world.

¹³But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

¹⁴For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh:

¹⁵Making void the law of commandments contained in decrees: that he might make the two in himself into one new man, making peace

¹⁶And might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, killing the enmities in himself.

¹⁷And coming, he preached peace to you that were afar off: and peace to them that were nigh.

¹⁸For by him we have access both in one Spirit to the Father.

¹⁹Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners: but you are fellow citizens with the saints and the domestics of God,

²⁰Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone:

²¹In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord.

²²In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.

Chapter 3

For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for you Gentiles:

²If yet you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me towards you:

³How that, according to revelation, the mystery has been made known to me, as I have written above in a few words:

⁴As you reading, may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ,

⁵Which in other generations was not known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit:

⁶That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body: and copartners of his promise in Christ Jesus, by the gospel

⁷Of which I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God, which is given to me according to the operation of his power.

⁸To me, the least of all the saints, is given this grace, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ:

⁹And to enlighten all men, that they may see what is the dispensation of the mystery which hath been hidden from eternity in God who created all things:

¹⁰That the manifold wisdom of God may be made known to the principalities and powers in heavenly places through the church,

¹¹According to the eternal purpose which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord:

¹²In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

¹³Wherefore I pray you not to faint at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

¹⁴For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁵Of whom all paternity in heaven and earth is named:

¹⁶That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the inward man:

¹⁷That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted and founded in charity,

¹⁸You may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

¹⁹To know also the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all knowledge: that you may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

²⁰Now to him who is able to do all things more abundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us:

²¹To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, unto all generations, world without end. Amen.

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