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

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household,

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

Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “Uncircumcision” by the so-called “Circumcision,” which is performed in the flesh by human hands—

having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.

For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall,

But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

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

for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity.

And He came and preached peace to you who were far away, and peace to those who were near;

by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace,

not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

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

in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord,