¹ And he hath quickened you, ² who were dead in trespasses and sins, Wherein ye formerly walked, according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in time past, ³ in the desires of the flesh, doing the will of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the others. ⁴ But God who is rich in mercy, ⁵ through his great love wherewith he loved us, Hath quickened us together with Christ, even when we were dead in trespasses, (by grace ye are saved) And hath raised us up together, ⁶ and made us sit together in heavenly places through Christ Jesus: ⁷ That he might shew in the ages to come the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace ye are saved through faith; and this not of yourselves: ⁹ it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. ¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created through Christ Jesus unto good works, which God had before prepared, that we might walk in them.

⁶ As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him; ⁷ Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

⁸ Beware lest any man make a prey of you through philosophy and empty deceit, after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of this world, and not after Christ. ⁹ For in him dwelleth the fulness of the Godhead bodily. ¹⁰ And ye are filled by him, who is the head of all principality and power. ¹¹ By whom also ye are circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ: ¹² Buried with him in baptism, by which ye are also risen with him, through the faith of the operation of God, who raised him from the dead. ¹³ And you who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, ¹⁴ having forgiven you all trespasses, Having blotted out by his decrees the hand-writing against us, which was contrary to us; and having nailed it to his cross, he took it out of the way. ¹⁵ And having spoiled the principalities and powers, he exposed them openly, triumphing over them in him.