Ephesians 2

¹And you when you were dead by your offences and sins,

²wherein sometime 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 diffidence,

³in whom also we all conversed sometime in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath as also the rest:

⁴but God (which is rich in mercy) for his exceeding charity wherewith he loved us,

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

⁶and raised us up with him, and hath made us sit with him in the celestials in Christ Jesus,

⁷that he might shew in the worlds succeeding, the aboundant riches of his grace, in bounty upon 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 glory.

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

¹¹For the which cause be mindful that sometime you were Gentiles in the flesh, who were called prepuce, of that which is called circumcision in the flesh, made with hand:

¹²who were at that time without Christ, alienated from the conversation of Israel, and strangers of the testaments, having no hope of the promise, and without God in this world.

¹³But now in Christ Jesus, you that sometime were far off, are made nigh in the blood of Christ.

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

¹⁵evacuating the law of commandments in decrees: that he may create the two in himself into one new man, making peace,

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

¹⁷And coming he evangelized peace to you that were far off, and peace to them that were nigh.

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

¹⁹Now then you are not strangers and foreigners: but you are citizens of the saints, and the domesticals of God,

²⁰built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the highest corner-stone:

²¹in whom all building framed together, groweth into an holy temple in our Lord,

²²in whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Holy Ghost.