Ephesians 2:1-10 - Made Alive In Christ

¹ AND you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins, ² wherein in times past ye walked after the fashion of this world, after the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now worketh with energy in the children of disobedience: ³ among whom also we all have had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, as well as the rest. ⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, through the great love with which he hath loved us, ⁵ though we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved,) ⁶ and hath raised us up together with him, and made us sit down together in the heavenly regions in Christ Jesus. ⁷ That he might shew forth in the ages to come the transcendent riches of his grace, in the kindness shewed to us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace ye are saved through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: ⁹ not by works, lest any man should boast; ¹⁰ for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, for which God hath before prepared us, that we should walk therein.

⁶ As therefore ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him: ⁷ rooted and built up on him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

⁸ Beware that no man make a prey of you by means of philosophy and vain delusion, after the tradition of men, after the principles of the world, and not after Christ: ⁹ for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily; ¹⁰ and ye are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power: ¹¹ in whom also ye have been circumcised with the circumcision not made with hands, by the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, through the circumcision of Christ: ¹² buried with him in baptism, in which also ye have been raised up together with him by faith, the energy of God, who raised him from the dead. ¹³ And you, who were dead in sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened with him, freely forgiving you all trespasses; ¹⁴ and hath blotted out the handwriting in ordinances that was against us, which was the obstacle to us, and took it from the midst, nailing it to the cross; ¹⁵ spoiling principalities and powers, he exposed them to view openly, triumphing over them on it.