1 And you he made alive, when you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
2 in which you once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience;
3 among whom we too all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, on account of the great love with which he loved us,
5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),
6 and raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly regions in Christ Jesus,
7 so that in the ages to come he might show the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness toward us in 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 for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
11 Therefore remember that you were once Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called "the circumcision," which is made in the flesh by hand,
12 that at that time you were without Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been made near by the blood of Christ.
14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has broken down the middle wall of partition,
15 having abolished the enmity in his flesh, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in himself one new man out of the two, making peace,
16 and might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, having put to death the enmity by it.
17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.
18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
19 So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
20 built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone,
21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.