Worsley - Ephesians - 2

2:1  And you hath he made alive who were dead in trespasses and sins,

2:2  in which ye formerly walked after the manner of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that still operates in the children of disobedience:

2:3  among whom also we were all conversant heretofore in our carnal desires, indulging the appetites of the flesh and of our imaginations; and were by nature children of wrath, even as others.

2:4  But God being rich in mercy, through his great love wherewith He loved us,

2:5  hath made us alive in Christ, even when we were dead in trespasses, (for by grace ye are saved) and hath raised us up together,

2:6  and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

2:7  That in the ages to come He might shew the superabundant riches of his grace, in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus.

2:8  For by grace ye are saved, through faith: and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: not by works, that no one may boast:

2:9  for we are his workmanship,

2:10  created in Christ Jesus unto good works, for which God before prepared us, that we might walk in them.

2:11  Wherefore remember that ye were formerly Gentiles in the flesh, called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision made by hands in the flesh;

2:12  and ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: but now in Christ Jesus,

2:13  ye, who were formerly afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

2:14  For He is our peace, who hath made both one, and removed the wall of partition from between us;

2:15  having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that He might form the two into one new man, in Himself, so making peace;

2:16  and that He might reconcile both in one body unto God, by the cross, having thereby slain the enmity:

2:17  and He came and preached peace to you that were afar off, and to them that were nigh.

2:18  For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

2:19  Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the houshold of God;

2:20  being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone:

2:21  in whom the whole building fitly joined together increaseth to an holy temple in the Lord:

2:22  in whom ye also are built up together for an habitation of God by the Spirit.