Ephesians 2:1-10 - Made Alive In Christ

¹ You, who were dead in trespasses and in your sins, ² in which at one time you walked about according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit which is now working in the sons of disobedience; ³ among whom we all indeed at one time lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the thoughts, and we were by nature the children of wrath, like the rest also: ⁴ but God, being rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us, ⁵ created life in us in Christ, who were dead in trespasses, by grace you have been saved, ⁶ and he has raised you up, and caused you to sit in the heavenlies, in Christ Jesus: ⁷ in order that he may show in coming ages the superabounding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: ⁹ not of works, in order that no one may boast: ¹⁰ for we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God before prepared that we should walk in them.

⁶ Therefore as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk about in him, ⁷ having been rooted and grounded in him, and confirmed in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

⁸ See that no one shall be deceiving you through philosophy and empty delusion, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ, ⁹ because in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, ¹⁰ and you are complete in him, who is the head of all government and authority: ¹¹ in whom you are also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of depravity, in the circumcision of Christ; ¹² having been buried with him in baptism, in which you are also raised by the faith of the operation of God, who raised him from the dead: ¹³ and you, being dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your depravity, has he created life in you along with himself, having forgiven us all transgressions, ¹⁴ having blotted out the handwriting which was against us in ordinances, which was antagonistical to us: and took it out from the midst, having nailed it to the cross; ¹⁵ having destroyed governments and authorities, he made a public exhibition of them triumphing over them on it.