CHAPTER 2
in
which
you used to walk
when you conformed to
the
ways
of this
world
and
of the
ruler
of the
power
of the
air,
the
spirit who is
now
at work
in
the
sons
of disobedience.
We
all
lived
among
them
at one time
in
the
cravings
of our
flesh,
indulging
its
desires
and
thoughts.
Like
the
rest,
we were
by nature
children
of wrath.
made us alive with
Christ,
even when
we
were
dead
in our
trespasses.
It is by grace
you have been
saved!
in order that
in
the
coming
ages
He might display
the
surpassing
riches
of
His
grace,
demonstrated by
His kindness
to
us
in
Christ
Jesus.
For it is
by grace
you have been
saved
through
faith,
and
this
not
from
yourselves;
it is the
gift
of God,
For
we are
God’s
workmanship,
created
in
Christ
Jesus
to do
good
works,
which
God
prepared in advance
as
our way of life.
Therefore
remember
that
formerly
you
who are
Gentiles
in
the flesh
and called
uncircumcised
by
the
so-called
circumcision
(that done in
the body
by human hands)—
remember that
at
that
time
you were
separate from
Christ,
alienated from
the
commonwealth
of Israel,
and
strangers
to the
covenants
of the
promise,
without
hope
and
without God
in
the
world.
But
now
in
Christ
Jesus
you
who
once
were
far away
have been brought
near
through
the
blood
of Christ.
For
He Himself
is
our
peace,
who
has made
the two
one
and
has torn down
the
dividing
wall
of hostility
by abolishing
in
His
flesh
the
law
of commandments
and
decrees.
He did this to
create
in
Himself
one
new
man
out of
the
two,
thus making
peace
and
reconciling
both of them
to God
in
one
body
through
the
cross,
by
which
He extinguished
their
hostility.
Therefore
you are
no longer
strangers
and
foreigners,
but
fellow citizens
of the
saints
and
members of God’s household,
built
on
the
foundation
of the
apostles
and
prophets,
with Christ
Jesus
Himself
as
the cornerstone.