| 2:1 | And although you were* dead* in your transgressions and sins, |
| 2:2 | in which* you formerly lived* according to this world’s present path,* according to the ruler of the kingdom* of the air, the ruler of* the spirit* that is now energizing* the sons of disobedience,* |
| 2:3 | among whom* all of us* also* formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath* even as the rest…* |
| 2:4 | But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, |
| 2:5 | even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are saved!* – |
| 2:6 | and he raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, |
| 2:7 | to demonstrate in the coming ages* the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward* us in Christ Jesus. |
| 2:8 | For by grace you are saved* through faith,* and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God; |
| 2:9 | it is not from* works, so that no one can boast.* |
| 2:10 | For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them.* |
| 2:11 | Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh – who are called “uncircumcision” by the so-called “circumcision” that is performed on the body* by human hands – |
| 2:12 | that you were at that time without the Messiah,* alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise,* having no hope and without God in the world. |
| 2:13 | But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.* |
| 2:14 | For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one* and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility, |
| 2:15 | when he nullified* in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man* out of two,* thus making peace, |
| 2:16 | and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.* |
| 2:17 | And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near, |
| 2:18 | so that* through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. |
| 2:19 | So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household, |
| 2:20 | because you have been built* on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,* with Christ Jesus himself as* the cornerstone.* |
| 2:21 | In him* the whole building,* being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, |
| 2:22 | in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. |
Ephesians 2 - NET Bible [draft]
