^2:1 Even you^° were being dead in your^° trespasses and sins, ^2:2 in which you^° previously walked around according-to the age of this world {i.e., current things of this world}, according-to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit which is now working in the sons of disobedience, ^2:3 among whom we also all conducted ourselves previously in the lusts of our flesh, practicing the wills of the flesh and of the perceptions and we were children of wrath by nature, even as the rest. ^2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his much love^* with which he loved^* us, ^2:5 even us being dead in our trespasses, he made^* us alive together-with the Christ; you^° are saved in his grace. ^2:6 And God raised us up together-with him and seated us together-with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, ^2:7 in-order-that in the coming ages, he might show the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. ^2:8 For^* you^° are saved by the grace through the faith, and this thing, the gift of God, is not from you^°, ^2:9 not from works, in-order-that not anyone should boast. ^2:10 For^* we are his product and were created in Christ Jesus upon good works, in which God prepared beforehand in-order-that we should walk around in them.

      ^2:11 Hence remember^°, that previously you^° (the Gentiles in the flesh), the ones called^* uncircumcision by what is called^* circumcision which is handmade in the flesh; ^2:12 that you^° were separate from Christ at that time, and were alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers from the covenants^* of the promise, having no hope and were godless in the world. ^2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you^° who are previously from afar became near to him in the blood of the Christ. ^2:14 For^* he himself is our peace, who made^* us both one and tore-down the middle wall of the barrier, ^2:15 and did-away-with the hostility in his flesh, which is the Law of commandments in decrees; in-order-that he might create in himself the two into one new man, thus making^* peace, ^2:16 and might reconcile the two both in one body to God through the cross, when he killed the hostility in himself. ^2:17 And after he came, he proclaimed the good-news of peace to you^° the ones from afar and peace to the ones near, ^2:18 because through him we both have the access in one Spirit to the Father. ^2:19 Therefore, consequently^*, you^° are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you^° are fellow citizens of the holy-ones and members of the household of God, ^2:20 which was built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Jesus Christ himself being the cornerstone, ^2:21 in whom all the building, fitly framed together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord; ^2:22 in whom you^° are also built together into a residence of God in the Spirit.