以弗所书 2
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
靠恩典、凭信心
2 你们从前死在过犯和罪恶之中。 2 那时，你们随从今世的风俗，顺服在空中掌权的魔鬼，就是如今在一切叛逆上帝之人心中运行的邪灵。 3 我们以前也在他们当中随从罪恶的本性[a]，放纵肉体和心中的私欲，与其他人一样本是惹上帝发怒的人。
4 然而上帝有丰富的怜悯，祂深爱我们， 5 尽管我们死在过犯之中，祂仍然使我们和基督一同活了过来。你们得救是因为上帝的恩典。 6 在基督耶稣里，上帝使我们与基督一同复活，一同坐在天上， 7 好借着祂在基督耶稣里向我们所施的恩慈，向后世显明祂无可比拟的丰富恩典。 8 你们得救是靠恩典，凭信心。这不是出于你们自己，而是上帝的礼物； 9 也不是由于你们的行为，以免有人自夸。 10 我们是上帝的杰作，是在基督耶稣里创造的，为要叫我们做祂预先安排给我们的美善之事。
在基督里合而为一
11 因此，你们要记住，从前按照肉体来说你们是外族人，那些肉体上受过人手所行割礼的以色列人称你们为“没有受过割礼的”。 12 那时，你们与基督无关，又不是以色列人，在上帝应许的诸约上是局外人，你们活在世上没有盼望，没有上帝。 13 但你们这些从前远离上帝的人，如今在基督耶稣里，靠着祂所流的血已经被带到上帝面前。 14 因为基督耶稣亲自给我们带来了和平，以自己的身体拆毁了以色列人和外族人之间充满敌意的隔墙，使双方合而为一， 15 并废除了以诫命和规条为内容的律法制度。祂这样做是为了在自己里面把双方造成一个新人，成就和平， 16 并借着十字架消灭彼此间的敌意，使双方借着一个身体与上帝和好。 17 祂来传扬这平安的福音给你们这些离上帝很远的外族人，也给我们这些离上帝很近的以色列人。 18 我们双方都是靠着祂在同一位圣灵的引导下来到父上帝面前。
19 从此，你们不再是外人或过客，你们与众圣徒一样是天国的子民，是上帝家里的人了。 20 你们已被建立在众使徒和先知们的基础上，基督耶稣自己是房角石。 21 整座建筑的各部分都靠祂巧妙地连接在一起，逐渐成为主的圣殿。 22 你们也靠着祂被建造在一起，成为上帝借着圣灵居住的地方。
Footnotes
- 2:3 “罪恶的本性”希腊文是“肉体”。
以 弗 所 書 2
Chinese New Testament: Easy-to-Read Version
从死到生
2 过去，因为你们的罪孽和忤逆，你们在精神上死去了。 2 过去你们生活在这些罪恶之中，过着世人所过的生活，并且服从这个世界邪恶力量的统治者，就是现在正活动在那些不服从上帝的人之中的那个灵。 3 过去，我们也生活在这些人之中，放纵自己罪恶自我的欲望，做我们罪恶自我和内心所想的事，所以，就像世上其他的人一样，我们注定要经历上帝的愤怒。
4 但是，上帝的仁慈是非常丰富的，他对我们的爱是博大的。 5 当我们在精神上因为犯罪而死的时候，上帝让我们与基督一起得到了新的生命。他的恩典拯救了我们。 6 上帝让我们与基督一起复活，并在天国里与他同坐在他的宝座上，因为我们在基督耶稣之中。 7 上帝这么做，为的是要在未来的日子里能够展示他无与伦比的的恩典。上帝在基督耶稣里向我们显示了他的仁慈。 8 你们通过信仰得到拯救乃是上帝的恩典，这不出自你们自己，而是上帝的恩赐， 9 而不是因为你们做了什么，所以，也就没有人能够夸口。 10 上帝是我们的创造者，他在基督耶稣里创造了我们，以便我们去行善。上帝事先已为我们准备好了这些善行，以便我们毕生去实践它们。
在基督之中合为一体
11 因此，记住你们生来是非犹太人，是被那些自称为“受过割礼”的犹太人称为“没受过割礼的人”。（指由凡人之手操作的肉体手术。） 12 记住，过去你们没有基督，被排除在以色列社会（上帝的子民）之外，与上帝应许的契约无缘，你们生活在没有希望、没有上帝的世界里。 13 你们曾远离上帝，但是现在，在耶稣基督里，通过基督的血（死），被带到了上帝的身边。 14 因为基督本人就是我们和平的源泉，他使两种人（犹太人和非犹太人）成为一个民族。他用自己的身体推倒了使他们敌对的分裂之墙。 15 他废除了律法及其条例和规则，以便使这两种人（犹太人与非犹太人和他融为一体，）成为一个新的民族，从而和平相处。 16 他通过死在十字架上来结束两者之间的敌视。借助十字架上的死，他使他们成为一体，得以和上帝重归于好。 17 因此，基督的到来，既向你们这些远离上帝的人（非犹太人）传播了和平的福音，也向那些接近上帝的人（犹太人）传播了和平的福音。 18 因为，通过基督，凭借同一圣灵，我们都能来到父的面前。
19 所以，你们非犹太人不再是异客和陌生人了，而是上帝子民的同胞，你们属于上帝的家庭。 20 你们是一座建立在以基督本人为主要基石、由使徒和先知 [a]组成的基础上的建筑。 21 整座建筑，由于基督而连为一体，并崛起成为主内的一幢圣殿。 22 在基督里，你们这些人和其他人（犹太人）被建造在一起，成为上帝通过圣灵居住的地方。
Footnotes
- 以 弗 所 書 2:20 先知： 上帝的代言人。
Ephesians 2
Worldwide English (New Testament)
2 There was a time when you were dead. That was because of the bad and the wrong things you did.
2 At one time you did those wrong things, just like the people around you. You obeyed the ruler who has the power over things in the air. That ruler is the spirit who is working now in the people who do not obey God.
3 At one time we too all lived like them. We lived to please ourselves. We did what our bodies and our minds wanted us to do. We were people with whom God was angry, just like other people.
4 But God was very, very kind. He loved us very, very much.
5 We were dead because of the wrong things we had done. He has made us alive with Christ. You have been saved by his love and kindness.
6 God raised us from death with Christ Jesus and gave us a place to sit with him in heaven.
7 He did this to show us in all times to come how much he can bless people and how kind he is. It was Jesus Christ who brought this kindness to us.
8 You have been saved by God's love and kindness because you believed. It was not because of anything you did, but it was a gift from God.
9 You were not saved by trying to do what the law says. So no one can be proud about it.
10 God has made us. In Jesus Christ God made us so that we can do good things. He planned that we should live that way.
11 So remember that you were not born Jews. (They call you `The Uncircumcised').
12 Remember you did not know Christ at that time. You were far away from the people of Israel. You had no part in the agreements which God promised to them. You had no hope and you were without God in this world.
13 At one time you were far away, but now you have been brought near to God by the blood [death] of Jesus Christ.
14 Christ has made peace between us. He has brought both Jews and non-Jews together into one people. He has broken down the wall that divided us.
15 In his own body Christ made an end of the law and its rules. He did this so that in him two peoples could become one. In this way, he made peace between us.
16 He did this so that by the cross he might bring both kinds of people back to God in one body. And by the cross he has stopped our hating each other.
17 He came and said that there is now peace. There is peace for you who were far away from God and for those who were near.
18 Because of what Christ has done, we can come to the Father by one Spirit.
19 So then you are no longer strangers or people far away. But you live with God's people and belong to God's family.
20 God's family is like a house and you are part of the building. The apostles and prophets are like the lower walls of the house and you are the building on this foundation. Jesus Christ is the big stone at the corner.
21 He is the one who holds the whole house together, and it becomes a holy house belonging to the Lord.
22 You too are a part of this house. God himself lives in this house by his Spirit.
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