Ephesians 2:1-10 - Made Alive In Christ

¹ And ye being dead in faults and in sins; ² In which when ye walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, of the spirit now energetic in the sons of disobedience: ³ Among whom also we then all occupied ourselves in the eager desire? of our flesh, doing the wills of the flesh and the thoughts; and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest. ⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, by his much love which he loved us, ⁵ And we being dead in faults, he made alive together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved;) ⁶ And raised together, and seated together in heavenlies in Christ Jesus: ⁷ That he might show in times coming the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness to us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this not of you: the gift of God: ⁹ Not of works, lest any one should boast. ¹⁰ For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.,

⁶ Therefore as ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him: ⁷ Being rooted and built up in him, and rendered firm in the faith, as ye were taught, abounding in it with gratitude.

⁸ See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ. ⁹ For in him dwells all the completion of divinity bodily. ¹⁰ And ye are completed in him, who is the head of all beginning and power: ¹¹ In whom also were ye circumcised with the circumcision not made by hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ; ¹² Buried together with him in immersion, in which also were ye risen together by the faith of the operation of God, having raised him from the dead. ¹³ And you, being dead in faults and uncircumcision of the flesh, he made alive together with him, having propitiated to you all faults; ¹⁴ Having wiped out the handwriting against us in enactments, which was opposed to us, and he has taken it from the midst, having nailed it to his cross ¹⁵ Having stripped off beginnings and powers, he made an example in freedom of speech, having led them in triumph in it.