This Power Made Us Alive From The Dead And Seated Us With Christ As Recipients of Grace

2 Indeed, you were dead in your trespasses and sins ² in which you formerly walked in accordance with the [present] age^[a] of this world, in accordance with the ruler of the authority^[b] of the air, of ^[c] the spirit^[d] now being at-work in the sons of ^[e] disobedience, ³ among whom even we all formerly conducted-ourselves^[f] in the desires of our flesh, doing the wants^[g] of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of ^[h] wrath, as also the rest. ⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even we being dead in trespasses, made-us-alive-with Christ— by grace you are saved— ⁶ and raised-us-with Him and seated-us-with Him in the heavenly-places in Christ Jesus, ⁷ in order that He might demonstrate^[i] in the coming ages^[j] the surpassing riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For We Are Saved By Grace For The Good Works Which God Prepared For Us

⁸ For by grace you are saved through faith. And this^[k] is not from you. It is the gift of God— ⁹ not of works, in order that no one may boast. ¹⁰ For we are His workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared-beforehand in order that we might walk in them.

So Remember Your Hopeless Condition As Gentiles Without Christ And God’s Promises

¹¹ Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh— the ones being called “the uncircumcised” by the one being called “the circumcised” (one done-by-human-hands in the flesh)— ¹² that you were at that time without Christ, having been excluded from the citizenship^[l] of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without-God in the world.

But Now Christ Made Peace And Reconciled Jews And Gentiles To God Through The Cross

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones formerly being far-away, were made near by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For He Himself is our peace, the One having made both one and having broken-down the dividing-wall of partition^[m], the hostility— in His flesh ¹⁵ having abolished^[n] the Law of commandments in decrees^[o] in order that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, making peace, ¹⁶ and reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility by it^[p]. ¹⁷ And having come, He announced-as-good-news peace to you, the ones far-away, and peace to the ones near, ¹⁸ because^[q] through Him we both have the access in^[r] one Spirit to the Father.

So You Are No Longer Strangers, But In Christ You Are Fellow Citizens And Family Members

¹⁹ So then, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow-citizens with the saints and family-members of God, ²⁰ having been built upon the foundation of ^[s] the apostles and prophets— Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, ²¹ in Whom the whole building being fitted-together^[t] is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, ²² in Whom also you are being built-together into a dwelling-place of God in^[u] the Spirit.