Ephesians 2

Sawyer^{(i) 1 (1:4)} And you being dead in trespasses and sins,— ² in which you formerly walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit which now operates in the children of disobedience, ³ among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, performing the wishes of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as others; ⁴ but God who is rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us,— ⁵ even when we were dead in sins he made us alive with Christ,—by grace are you saved, ⁶ and raised us up and seated us together with Christ Jesus in the heavenly worlds, ⁷ that he might show in the ages to come the transcendent riches of his grace in goodness to us by Jesus Christ. ⁸ For by grace are you saved through the faith; and that not of you; [it is] the gift of God; ⁹ not of works, that no one may boast; ¹⁰ for we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, in which God before appointed that we should walk. ^{11 (1:5)} Wherefore, remember that you were formerly gentiles by birth, called uncircumcision by that called circumcision made in the flesh by the hand, ¹² that at that time you were without Christ, alienated from the polity 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 were formerly far off have been made nigh by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, who made both one and broke down the middle wall of partition, ¹⁵ the enmity, and abolished by his flesh the law of commandments [consisting] of ordinances, that of the two he might create in himself one new man, making peace, ¹⁶ and reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having destroyed the enmity by it. ¹⁷ And he came and preached the good news of peace to you who were far off, and peace to those nigh, ¹⁸ for through him we both have access by one spirit to the Father. ¹⁹ Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow-citizens of the saints and of the family of God, ²⁰ being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone, ²¹ by which all the building being fitted together grows into a holy temple in the Lord, ²² in which you also are built up together for a spiritual habitation of God.