2:1  And you had died in your trespasses and sins,

2:2   in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience.

2:3   Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and behaved by nature as children of wrath, even as the rest.

2:4   But God, having rich mercy and great love toward us,

2:5   even when we had died in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ ( by grace you have received salvation),

2:6   and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

2:7   so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

2:8   For by grace you have received salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves, God has given it to you;

2:9   not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

2:10   For we represent His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

2:11  Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who people referred to as " Uncircumcision" by the so-called " Circumcision," which takes place in the flesh by human hands--

2:12   remember that you formerly had become separated from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

2:13   But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly had become estranged had become brought near by the blood of Christ.

2:14   For He Himself consists of our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall,

2:15   by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which came from the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace,

2:16  and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity.

2:17   AND HE CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHO DRIFTED FAR AWAY, AND PEACE TO THOSE WHO DREW NEAR;

2:18   for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

2:19   So then He does no longer consider you strangers and aliens, but you have become fellow citizens with the saints, and have entered God's household,

2:20   having become built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself as the corner stone,

2:21   in whom the whole building, which God fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

2:22   in whom God placed you also building together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.