It is in him we have deliverance, the forgiveness of our trespasses, through his blood;

It is he in whom we Jews also have our inheritance, having been chosen beforehand according to the purpose of Him who executes all things according to the counsel of his will,

even while we were dead in our trespasses, made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved).

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is God's gift.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near in the blood of Christ.

because it is through him that we both have access in one spirit to the Father.

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles??2 for surely you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God entrusted to me for you?

You have heard how by direct revelation the secret truth was made known to me, as I have already briefly written you.

By reading what I have written, you can judge of my insight into that secret truth of Christ

In him we have this fearless confidence and boldness of access through our faith in him.

These being past feeling have given themselves over to sensuality, in order to practise every form of impurity with greedy zest.

But you have not so learned Christ,

if indeed you have listened to him, and in him been taught the truth as it is in Jesus.

You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive;

Let him who stole steal no more, but let him work, and in honest industry toil with his hands, so that he may have something to give to the needy.

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness, but rather expose them.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about us, and that he may cheer your hearts.