Ephesians 2:1-10 - Made Alive In Christ

¹ And He has made you alive, who were once dead in trespasses and sins, ² in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience; ³ among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. ⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us ⁵ (even when we were dead in sins) has made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved), ⁶ and has raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus, ⁷ so that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, ⁹ not of works, lest anyone should boast. ¹⁰ For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.

⁶ Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, ⁷ rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

⁸ Beware lest anyone rob you through philosophy and vain 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 fullness of the Godhead bodily. ¹⁰ And you are complete in Him, who is the Head of all principality and power, ¹¹ in whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ, ¹² buried with Him in baptism, in whom also you were raised through the faith of the working of God, raising Him from the dead. ¹³ And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, ¹⁴ blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross. ¹⁵ Having stripped rulers and authorities, He made a show of them publicly, triumphing over them in it.