Chapter 2

¹And you, when you were dead in your offences, and sins, ²Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief: ³In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest: ⁴But God, (who is rich in mercy,) for his exceeding charity wherewith he loved us, ⁵Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together in Christ, (by whose grace you are saved,) ⁶And hath raised us up together, and hath made us sit together in the heavenly places, through Christ Jesus. ⁷That he might shew in the ages to come the abundant riches of his grace, in his bounty towards us in Christ Jesus. ⁸For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God; ⁹Not of works, that no man may glory. ¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them. ¹¹For which cause be mindful that you, being heretofore Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands; ¹²That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel, and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise, and without God in this world. ¹³But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh: ¹⁵Making void the law of commandments contained in decrees; that he might make the two in himself into one new man, making peace; ¹⁶And might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, killing the enmities in himself. ¹⁷And coming, he preached peace to you that were afar off, and peace to them that were nigh. ¹⁸For by him we have access both in one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and the domestics of God, ²⁰Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone: ²¹In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord. ²²In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.