以弗所书 2
Chinese Standard Bible (Simplified)
出死入生
2 你们因着自己的过犯和罪孽，原是死的； 2 在其中，你们从前行事为人，是顺着这世界的潮流，顺着那空中势力的掌权者，就是现今在那些不信从的儿女里面做工的灵。 3 我们从前也都生活在他们中间，生活在自己肉体的欲望里，行肉体和意念所愿的事。我们正如其他人，生来也是震怒之下的儿女。 4 不过神有丰富的怜悯，因着他爱我们的大爱， 5 甚至当我们还死在过犯中的时候，就使我们与基督一同活过来——你们得救是藉着恩典！ 6 神又使我们在基督耶稣里，与基督一同复活、一同坐在天上， 7 为了在将来的各世代中，在基督耶稣里，藉着对我们的仁慈，可以显出他那无限恩典的丰盛。 8 你们得救确实是藉着恩典、藉着信，这不是出于你们自己，而是神的恩赐； 9 也不是本于行为，免得有人自夸。 10 实际上，我们是神的创作，是为了美善的工作在基督耶稣里被造成的；神早已预备好了美善工作，要我们在其中行事[a]。
在基督里合而为一
11 所以你们当记住：从前，你们照着肉体说是外邦人，被那些所谓“受割礼的”称为“没受割礼的”；割礼是人手在肉体上所行的。 12 那时候，你们与基督无关；被排除在以色列国民之外；在那些所应许的诸约上是外人；在这世界上没有盼望、没有神。 13 但如今，在基督耶稣里，你们这些从前在远处的人，藉着基督的血，已经被带到近处了。 14 因为他自己是我们的和平，他使两者合而为一，废除了那隔在中间仇恨的墙；以自己的身体， 15 废除了谕令中诫命的律法，为了把两者在他自己里面造成一个新人，缔造和平。 16 他在十字架上既然消除了仇恨，就藉着十字架使两者得以在一个身体里，与神和好； 17 并且来传和平[b]的福音给你们在远处的人，也给那些在近处的人。 18 因为藉着基督，我们两者能够在同一位圣灵里，来到父面前。 19 由此可见，你们不再是外人，或寄居的；你们是圣徒的同国之民，是神家里的人， 20 并且被建造在使徒和先知的根基上，有基督耶稣自己为房角石。 21 在基督耶稣里，全部建筑互相连接，渐渐成为在主里的圣殿； 22 在他里面，你们也一同被建造，藉着圣灵成为神居住的地方。
Ephesians 2
King James Version
2 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
12 That at that time ye 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:
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
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