Ephesians 2
2
Saved By Grace Through Faith
1 You were spiritually dead because of your transgressions and sins,
2 the way of life in which you once conducted yourselves, following the pattern of this present world system, under the influence of the ruler who governs the spiritual realm of the air, the spirit who is now actively working in those who are characterized by disobedience to God.
3 We all once conducted ourselves among them in the cravings of our fallen nature, carrying out the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by our very nature children destined for God’s wrath, just like everyone else.
4 But God, who has abundant mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us,
5 even while we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ—it is by grace that you have been saved—
6 and He raised us up together with Him and seated us together with Him in the heavenly realm in Christ Jesus,
7 in order that in the ages to come He might demonstrate the surpassing riches of His grace expressed in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this salvation is not something that originates from yourselves; it is God’s gift to you,
9 not something earned by works, so that no one has grounds for boasting.
10 For we are His creative masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus to live out the good works that God prepared in advance for us to walk in.
Unity of the Jewish and Gentile Saints in Christ Jesus
11 Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by physical birth—referred to as “the uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcised” because of a physical operation performed by human hands—
12 recall that at that time you existed apart from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel, and foreigners to the covenants that contained God’s promise, living without hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus, you who were once distant have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
14 For He Himself is our peace, the One who made both groups into one and demolished the dividing wall, the hostility, through His physical death,
15 by rendering powerless the Law with its commandments expressed in regulations, so that in Himself He might create one new humanity out of the two groups, thereby establishing peace,
16 and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, having put to death the hostility through Himself.
17 Then He came and proclaimed the good news of peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.
18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to come into the Father’s presence.
19 Consequently, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household,
20 built on the foundation laid by the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone,
21 in whom the entire structure, being joined together, continues to grow into a holy sanctuary in the Lord,
22 in whom you also are being constructed together into a dwelling place where God lives by the Spirit.
Currently Selected:
Ephesians 2: AFINTEXP
Highlight
Copy
Compare
Share
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in
Copyright © 2026 Michael Adeyemi Adegbola. This Scripture text is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
