Thematic Bible
Ephesians 2:1 (show verse)
You also were dead because of the offenses and sins
Ephesians 2:2 (show verse)
in the midst of which you once lived under the control of the present age of the world, and the master-spirit of the air, who is still at work among the disobedient.
Ephesians 2:3 (show verse)
We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.
Ephesians 2:4 (show verse)
But God is so rich in mercy that because of the great love he had for us,
Ephesians 2:5 (show verse)
he made us, dead as we were through our offenses, live again with the Christ. It is by his mercy that you have been saved.
Ephesians 2:6 (show verse)
And he raised us with Christ, and through our union with Christ Jesus made us sit down with him in heaven,
Ephesians 2:7 (show verse)
to show the incomparable wealth of his mercy throughout the ages to come by his goodness to us through Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:8 (show verse)
For it is by his mercy that you have been saved through faith. It is not by your own action, it is the gift of God.
Ephesians 2:9 (show verse)
It has not been earned, so that no one can boast of it.
Ephesians 2:10 (show verse)
For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.
Ephesians 2:11 (show verse)
So remember that you were once physically heathen, and called uncircumcised by those who called themselves circumcised, though only physically, by human hands.
Ephesians 2:12 (show verse)
At that time you had no connection with Christ, you were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the agreements about God's promise; with no hope and no God in all the world.
Ephesians 2:13 (show verse)
But now through your union with Christ Jesus you who were once far away have through the blood of Christ been brought near.
Ephesians 2:14 (show verse)
For he is himself our peace. He has united the two divisions, and broken down the barrier that kept us apart,
Ephesians 2:15 (show verse)
and through his human nature put an end to the feud between us, and abolished the Law with its rules and regulations, in order to make peace and create out of the two parties one new man by uniting them with himself,
Ephesians 2:16 (show verse)
and to kill the feud between them with his cross and in one body reconcile them both to God with it.
Ephesians 2:17 (show verse)
He came with the good news of peace for you who were far away and for those who were near;
Ephesians 2:18 (show verse)
for it is through him that we both with one Spirit are now able to approach the Father.
Ephesians 2:19 (show verse)
So you are no longer foreigners or strangers, but you are fellow-citizens of God's people and members of his family.
Ephesians 2:20 (show verse)
You are built upon the apostles and prophets as your foundation, and Christ Jesus himself is the cornerstone.
Ephesians 2:21 (show verse)
Through him every part of the building is closely united and grows into a temple sacred through its relation to the Lord,
Ephesians 2:22 (show verse)
and you are yourselves built up into a dwelling for God through the Spirit.