2:1And although you were¹ dead² in your transgressions and sins, 2:2 in which³ you formerly lived⁴ according to this world’s present path,⁵ according to the ruler of the kingdom⁶ of the air, the ruler of⁷ the spirit⁸ that is now energizing⁹ the sons of disobedience,¹⁰ 2:3 among whom¹¹ all of us¹² also¹³ 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 wrath¹⁴ even as the rest…¹⁵

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!¹⁶— 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 ages¹⁷ the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward¹⁸ us in Christ Jesus. 2:8 For by grace you are saved¹⁹ through faith,²⁰ and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 2:9 it is not of works, so that no one can boast.²¹ 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.²²

2:11 Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh—who are called “uncircumcision” by the so-called “circumcision” that is performed in the body²³ by hands—2:12 that you were at that time without the Messiah,²⁴ alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise,²⁵ 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.²⁶ 2:14 For he is our peace, the one who turned both groups into one²⁷ and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility, in his flesh, 2:15 when he nullified²⁸ the law of commandments in decrees. The purpose of this was²⁹ to create in himself the two into one new man, 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.³⁰ 2:17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; 2:18 so that³¹ through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 2:19 So then you are no longer foreigners and non-citizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household, 2:20 because you have been built³² on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,³³ with Christ Jesus himself as³⁴ the cornerstone. 2:21 In him³⁵ the whole building,³⁶ 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.