Ephesians 2–3

¹Also you—being dead in the trespasses and the sins, ²in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience, ³among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath—as also the others.

⁴And God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,) ⁶and did raise us up together, and did seat us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, ⁷that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus, ⁸for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you—of God the gift, ⁹not of works, that no one may boast; ¹⁰for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

¹¹Wherefore, remember, that ye were once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands, ¹²that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world; ¹³and now, in Christ Jesus, ye being once afar off became nigh in the blood of the Christ.

¹⁴For he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down, ¹⁵the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in himself into one new man, making peace, ¹⁶and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity in it, ¹⁷and having come, he did proclaim good news—peace to you—the far-off and the nigh, ¹⁸because through him we have the access—we both—in one Spirit unto the Father. ¹⁹Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but 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 chief corner -stone, ²¹in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord, ²²in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

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¹For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations, ²if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you, ³that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few words— ⁴in regard to which ye are able, reading it, to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ, ⁵which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit— ⁶that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news, ⁷of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power; ⁸to me—the less than the least of all the saints—was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news—the untraceable riches of the Christ, ⁹and to cause all to see what is the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ, ¹⁰that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God, ¹¹according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord, ¹²in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of him, ¹³wherefore, I ask you not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

¹⁴For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named, ¹⁶that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man, ¹⁷that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded, ¹⁸that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, ¹⁹to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled—to all the fulness of God; ²⁰and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us, ²¹to Him is the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.

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