Ephesians:2

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* And you [He made alive ,] being dead in transgressions and sins , * in which you once walked according to the age of this world , according to the prince of the power of the air , the spirit which is now working in the sons of disobedience , * among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh , fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the senses , and were by nature children of wrath , as also the rest . * But God , being rich in mercy , because of His great love with which He loved us , * even when we were dead in transgressions , made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved ), * and raised us up together , and seated us together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus , * that in the coming ages He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus . * For by grace you are saved through faith , and that not of yourselves ; [it is ] the gift of God , * not of works , lest anyone should boast . * For we are His handiwork , created in Christ Jesus for good works , which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them . * Therefore remember that you , once Gentiles in the flesh-who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made by hands in the flesh - * that at that time you were apart from Christ , being estranged from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise , not having hope and atheists in the world . * But now in Christ Jesus , you who once were far away have come to be near by the blood of Christ . * For He Himself is our peace , who has made both one , and who destroyed the dividing wall of separation , * having abolished in His flesh the enmity , that is , the law of commandments contained in ordinances , that He might create in Himself one new man [from ] the two , [thus ] making peace , * and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross , putting to death the enmity in Himself . * And having come , He preached peace to you who were far away and to those near . * Because through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father . * So then , you are no longer strangers and aliens , but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God , * being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets , Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone , * in whom the whole building , being joined together , grows into a holy temple in the Lord , * in whom you also are being built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit .

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