¹And you, being dead in the trespasses and in your sins,

²in which once you walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience,

³among whom also we ourselves all once lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the things willed of the flesh and of its thoughts, and we were by nature children of wrath, as even the rest.

⁴But God, being rich in compassion, because of the great love with which He loved us,

⁵even when we were dead in the trespasses, He made us alive together with the Anointed One (by favor you are saved)

⁶and He raised us up together, and He seated us together in the heavenly realms in the Anointed One Jesus,

⁷in order that He may show, in the ages that are coming, the surpassing riches of his favor in kindness toward us in the Anointed One Jesus.

⁸For by favor you are saved through the trust, and this is not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

⁹not as a result of works, so that not anyone may boast.

¹⁰For we are his workmanship, having been created in the Anointed One Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we may walk in them.

¹¹Therefore remember that formerly you yourselves, the nations in the flesh, the ones being named the uncircumcision by what is named the circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

¹²that you were in that appointed-time separate from the Anointed One, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of the promise, not having hope and without God in the world;

¹³but now in the Anointed One Jesus you yourselves, who were once far off, have become near by the blood of the Anointed One.

¹⁴For he himself is our wholeness, who has made both one, and having broken down the barrier of the fence, the hostility in his flesh,

¹⁵having annulled the law of commandments in ordinances, so that He may create the two in Him into one new man, making peace,

¹⁶and may reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the hostility by it;

¹⁷and when He had come, He announced good news of wholeness to you, the ones far off, and wholeness to those who are near,

¹⁸for through Him we both have the access by one Spirit to the Father.

¹⁹So then no longer are you strangers and aliens, but are fellow citizens of the holy ones and of the household of God,

²⁰having been built upon the foundation of the sent ones and prophets, with the Anointed One Jesus Himself being the cornerstone,

²¹in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is increasing into a holy temple in the Lord,

²²in whom also you yourselves are being built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.