1And so God has given life to you Gentiles also, who were once dead in your trespasses and sins, 2in which you passed your lives after the way of this world, under the sway of the Prince of the Powers of the Air, the spirit who is now working among the sons of disobedience. 3And among them we all once passed our lives, indulging the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of our senses and temperament, and were by nature the children of wrath like all the rest.¶ 4But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5even while we were dead in our trespasses, made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved). 6together with him He raised us from the dead, and together with Christ Jesus seated us in the heavenly realm, 7in order that he might show to the ages to come the amazing riches of his grace by his goodness to us in Christ Jesus. 8For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is God’s gift. 9It is not of works, so that any one can boast of it; 10for we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good deeds, which God predestined us to make our daily way of life.¶ 11Do not forget then, that you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by the "circumcision" made in flesh by man’s hand, 12were once upon a time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenants of the Promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near in the blood of Christ.¶ 14For he is our Peace, who has made the two of us Jew and Gentile one, and has broken down the party-wall of partition between us. 15In his own body he abolished the cause of our enmity, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, in order to make the two into one new man in himself, so making peace. 16Thus he reconciled us both in one body to God by his cross, on which he slew our enmity. 17So he came preaching "Peace" to you Gentiles who were afar off, and "Peace" to us Jews who were near; 18because it is through him that we both have access in one spirit to the Father. 19Take notice then that no longer are you strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household. 20You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone. 21In him the whole building, fitly framed together, rises into a holy temple in the Lord; 22and in him you, too, are continuously built together for a dwelling- place of God through his Spirit.¶