Ephesians 2:1-10 - Made Alive In Christ

¹ And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins, ² In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God; ³ Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest. ⁴ But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us, ⁵ Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation), ⁶ So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus; ⁷ That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus: ⁸ Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God: ⁹ Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself. ¹⁰ For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

⁶ As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him, ⁷ Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.

⁸ Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ: ⁹ For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form, ¹⁰ And you are complete in him, who is the head of all rule and authority: ¹¹ In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; ¹² Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead. ¹³ And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins; ¹⁴ Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross; ¹⁵ Having made himself free from the rule of authorities and powers, he put them openly to shame, glorying over them in it.