Ephesians:2

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* even you who were dead in trespasses and sins ; * in which you formerly walked , according to the course of this world , according to the prince of the power of the air-of the spirit which now effectually works in the children of disobedience ; * amongst whom we , also , were all formerly conversant in the lusts of our flesh , fulfilling the desires of the flesh , and of the mind , and were by nature children of wrath , even as others . * But God being rich in mercy , through his great love with which he loved us , * even us , who were dead in trespasses , he has made alive together with Christ ; (by favor you are saved ;) * and has raised us up together , and has set us down together in heavenly places with Christ Jesus ; * that he might show , in the ages to come , the exceeding riches of his favor in his kindness toward us by Christ Jesus . * For by favor you are saved through faith ; and this salvation not by yourselves ; it is the gift of God - * not by works , that no one may boast . * For we are his workmanship , created in Christ Jesus to good works , for which God before prepared us , that we should walk in them . * Wherefore , remember that you , formerly Gentiles in the flesh , (those called the uncircumcision , by them called the circumcision in the flesh , made by hands ,) * were in the world at that time , without Christ , being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel , and strangers to the institutions of promise ; having no hope , and without God : * but now , in Christ Jesus , you were formerly far off , are brought nigh by the blood of Christ . * For he is our peace , who has made both one , and has broken down the middle wall of separation ; * having abolished , by his flesh , the enmity , (the law of the commandments concerning ordinances ,) that he might make the two into one new man , under himself , making peace : * and might reconcile both to God , in one body , through the cross ; having slain the enmity by it . * And , having come , he brought good news of peace to you , the far off-to us , the nigh : * that , through him , we both have introduction to the Father , by one Spirit . * Now , then , you are no longer strangers and sojourners ; but fellow-citizens with the saints , and of the household of God : * having been built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets , Jesus Christ himself being the foundation corner stone ; * by which the whole building , being fitly compacted together , rises into a holy temple of the Lord ; * in which you , also , are builded together , for a habitation of God by the Spirit .

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