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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.
By Grace Through Faith
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
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 also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much,
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which 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!)
even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
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 raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places 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 in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward 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 by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
not of works, lest anyone should 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, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand 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.
Brought Near by His Blood
Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh — who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands —
Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh — who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands —
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 at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from 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 you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of 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.
Christ Our Peace
For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,
For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,
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 abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus 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 that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death 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 He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near.
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 both have 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.
Christ Our Cornerstone
Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members 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.
having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,
We are carefully joined together in him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord.
in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,