Ephesians 2-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

2 And you, when you were dead in your offences, and sins,

² Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief:

³ In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:

⁴ But God, (who is rich in mercy,) for his exceeding charity wherewith he loved us,

⁵ Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together in Christ, (by whose grace you are saved,)

⁶ And hath raised us up together, and hath made us sit together in the heavenly places, through Christ Jesus.

⁷ That he might shew in the ages to come the abundant riches of his grace, in his bounty towards us in Christ Jesus.

⁸ For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God;

⁹ Not of works, that no man may glory.

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them.

¹¹ For which cause be mindful that you, being heretofore Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands;

¹² That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel, and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise, and without God in this world.

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

¹⁴ For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh:

¹⁵ Making void the law of commandments contained in decrees; that he might make the two in himself into one new man, making peace;

¹⁶ And might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, killing the enmities in himself.

¹⁷ And coming, he preached peace to you that were afar off, and peace to them that were nigh.

¹⁸ For by him we have access both in one Spirit to the Father.

¹⁹ Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and the domestics of God,

²⁰ Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone:

²¹ In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord.

²² In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.

3 For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for you Gentiles;

² If yet you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me towards you:

³ How that, according to revelation, the mystery has been made known to me, as I have written above in a few words;

⁴ As you reading, may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ,

⁵ Which in other generations was not known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit:

⁶ That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and co-partners of his promise in Christ Jesus, by the gospel:

⁷ Of which I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God, which is given to me according to the operation of his power:

⁸ To me, the least of all the saints, is given this grace, to preach among the Gentiles, the unsearchable riches of Christ,

⁹ And to enlighten all men, that they may see what is the dispensation of the mystery which hath been hidden from eternity in God, who created all things:

¹⁰ That the manifold wisdom of God may be made known to the principalities and powers in heavenly places through the church,

¹¹ According to the eternal purpose, which he made, in Christ Jesus our Lord:

¹² In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

¹³ Wherefore I pray you not to faint at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

¹⁴ For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁵ Of whom all paternity in heaven and earth is named,

¹⁶ That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the inward man,

¹⁷ That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts; that being rooted and founded in charity,

¹⁸ You may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth:

¹⁹ To know also the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all knowledge, that you may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do all things more abundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us;

²¹ To him be glory in the church, and in Christ Jesus unto all generations, world without end. Amen.