Ephesians 2:1-10 - Made Alive In Christ

¹ You also did He make alive, when ye were dead in your trespasses and sins, ² in which ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the authority of the air, the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience; ³ among whom we also all once lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest; ⁴ but God, being rich in mercy, on account of His great love wherewith He loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in our offenses, made us alive with Christ (by grace ye have been saved), ⁶ and raised us up with Him, and made us sit with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus; ⁷ that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace ye have been saved through faith: and this, not of yourselves, it is the gift of God: ⁹ not of works, lest any one should boast; ¹⁰ for we are His workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God before prepared, that we should walk in them.

⁶ As, therefore, ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him; ⁷ having been rooted and being built up in Him, and being established in the faith as ye were taught, abounding with thanksgiving.

⁸ Beware, lest there should be any one who makes a spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceits, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ; ⁹ because in Him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily; ¹⁰ and ye have been made complete in Him, Who is the Head of all principality and power; ¹¹ in Whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hand, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; ¹² having been buried with Him in your immersion, in which ye were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, Who raised Him from the dead; ¹³ and you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, did He make alive with Him: having freely forgiven us all our trespasses; ¹⁴ having blotted out the hand-writing in decrees against us, which was contrary to us, and He has taken it out of the midst, nailing it to the cross; ¹⁵ having despoiled the principalities and the powers, He made an example of them, celebrating a triumph over them in it.