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Ephesians Chapter 2 002:001 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, 002:002 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience; 002:003 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
002:004 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, 002:005 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 002:006 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 002:007 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus; 002:008 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 002:009 not of works, that no one would boast.
002:010 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them. 002:011 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands); 002:012 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
002:013 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ. 002:014 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, 002:015 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace; 002:016 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.
002:017 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near. 002:018 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
002:019 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, 002:020 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; 002:021 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; 002:022 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.