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Made Alive with Christ
Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins.
Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins.
Alive with Christ
and *you*, being dead in your offences and sins --
and *you*, being dead in your offences and sins --
in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:
All of us used to live that way, following the passionate desires and inclinations of our sinful nature. By our very nature we were subject to God’s anger, just like everyone else.
among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:
But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much,
but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,
that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)
(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)
For he raised us from the dead along with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ Jesus.
and has raised [us] up together, and has made [us] sit down together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,
So God can point to us in all future ages as examples of the incredible wealth of his grace and kindness toward us, as shown in all he has done for us who are united with Christ Jesus.
that he might display in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.
God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God.
For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is God's gift:
Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
not on the principle of works, that no one might boast.
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them.
Oneness and Peace in Christ
Don’t forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders. You were called “uncircumcised heathens” by the Jews, who were proud of their circumcision, even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts.
One in Christ
Wherefore remember that *ye*, once nations in [the] flesh, who [are] called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in [the] flesh done with the hand;
Wherefore remember that *ye*, once nations in [the] flesh, who [are] called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in [the] flesh done with the hand;
In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope.
that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
But now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ.
but now in Christ Jesus *ye* who once were afar off are become nigh by the blood of the Christ.
For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us.
For *he* is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of enclosure,
He did this by ending the system of law with its commandments and regulations. He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new people from the two groups.
having annulled the enmity in his flesh, the law of commandments in ordinances, that he might form the two in himself into one new man, making peace;
Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death.
and might reconcile both in one body to God by the cross, having by it slain the enmity;
He brought this Good News of peace to you Gentiles who were far away from him, and peace to the Jews who were near.
and, coming, he has preached the glad tidings of peace to you who [were] afar off, and [the glad tidings of] peace to those [who were] nigh.
Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us.
For through him we have both access by one Spirit to the Father.
A Temple for the Lord
So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God’s holy people. You are members of God’s family.
A Temple in the Lord
So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,
So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,
Together, we are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself.
being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner-stone,
We are carefully joined together in him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord.
in whom all [the] building fitted together increases to a holy temple in the Lord;