EPHESIANS CHAPTER II

AND you hath he quickened, who were dead in 
trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to 
the course of this world, according to the prince of 
the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh 
in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation 
in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and 
were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great 
love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened
us together with Christ; (by grace ye are saved;)
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us 
sit together in heavenly places, in Christ Jesus:
7 That in the ages to come he might shew the 
exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness 
toward us, through Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are ye saved, through faith and 
that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ
Jesus unto good works, which God hath before 
ordained that we should walk in them. 
12 That at that time ye were without Christ, 
being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and 
strangers from the covenants of promise, having 
no hope, and without God in the world:
13 But now, in Christ Jesus, ye, who sometimes
were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 
14 For he is our peace, who hath made both 
one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition 
between us;
15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, 
even the law of commandments contained in ordinances: 
for to make in himself of twain one new 
man, so making peace; 
16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one 
body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 
17 And came and preached peace to you which 
were afar off, and to them that were nigh. 
18 For through him we both have access by 
one Spirit unto the Father. 
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and 
foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and 
of the household of God;
20 And are built upon the foundation of the 
apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being 
the chief corner-stone; 
21 In whom all the building fitly framed together, 
groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22 In whom ye also are builded together, for a 
habitation of God through the Spirit.