Ephesians 2:1-10 - Made Alive In Christ

¹ Even you, being dead to offenses and sins, ² in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is actively at work in the sons of disobedience: ³ among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the feelings, and were by nature children of wrath, even as others: ⁴ but God, being rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us, ⁵ made alive with Christ even us, being dead to our offenses, (by grace you are saved,) ⁶ and raised us up, and made us sit together in heavenly places, in Christ Jesus; ⁷ that he might show, in the ages to come, the exceeding riches of his grace by his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace you have been saved through the faith; and this matter is not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: ⁹ not by works, lest any one should boast. ¹⁰ For we are his workman ship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God before prepared, that we should walk in them.

⁶ As, therefore, you received Christ Jesus our Lord, so walk in him, ⁷ rooted, and built up in him, and strengthened in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

⁸ See that no one make you the victims of imposture by means of philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not ac cording to Christ: ⁹ for in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhood bodily. ¹⁰ And you are complete in him who is the head of all principality and authority: ¹¹ in whom you have been also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, ¹² when you were buried with him in immersion, in which you were also raised with him by your faith in the energy of God, who raised him from the dead. ¹³ And you, being dead to your offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made alive together with him, having forgiven you all your offenses; ¹⁴ having blotted out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us, which was opposed to us, he also took it out of the way, driving a nail through it by means of his cross; ¹⁵ and having spoiled the principalities and authorities, he made a show of them openly by triumphing over them through it.