Ephesians (The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the )

and [He worked in] you who were once dead in trespasses and sins,

in which you then walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience,

among whom we also all conducted ourselves in times past in the lusts of our flesh, doing the things willed of the flesh and of the understandings, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as the rest.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love [with] which He loved us,

even we being dead in sins, [He] made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are being saved),

and raised [us] up together and seated [us] together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,

that He might show in the coming ages the exceeding great riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For by grace you are saved, through faith, and this not of yourselves; [it is] the gift of God;

not of works, that not anyone should boast;

for we are [His] workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God before prepared that we should walk in them.

Because of this, remember that you, the nations, [were] then in [the] flesh (those having been called Uncircumcision by those having been called Circumcision in the flesh made by hand)

that at that time you were without Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers of the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

But now, in Christ Jesus you who then were afar off came to be near by the blood of Christ.

For He is our peace, He making us both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition,

in His flesh causing to cease the enmity, the Law of the commandments in decrees, that He might in Himself create the two into one new man, making peace,

and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, slaying the enmity in Himself.

And coming, [He] proclaimed "peace to you, the ones afar off, and to the ones near."

For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

So, then, you are no longer strangers and tenants, but [you are] fellow citizens of the saints and [of the] household of God,

being built up on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being [the] cornerstone,

in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in [the] Spirit.