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performed in the flesh by human hands <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span><i>remember</i> that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>For He Himself is our peace, who made both <i>groups into</i> one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, <i>which is</i> the Law of commandments <i>contained</i> in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, <i>thus</i> establishing peace, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>A<font size="1">ND</font> H<font size="1">E CAME AND PREACHED</font> <font size="1">PEACE TO YOU WHO WERE</font> <font size="1">FAR AWAY</font>, <font size="1">AND PEACE TO THOSE WHO WERE</font> <font size="1">NEAR</font>; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of Gods household, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner <i>stone,</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ephesians/2.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ephesians/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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; <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/ephesians/2.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Wherefore remember that ye, once nations in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in the flesh done with the hand;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ephesians/2.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Wherefore remember, that aforetime ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ephesians/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/ephesians/2.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />Therefore, do not forget that formerly you were Gentiles as to your bodily condition. You were called the Uncircumcision by those who style themselves the Circumcised--their circumcision being one which the knife has effected.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ephesians/2.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ephesians/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Wherefore, remember, that ye were once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/march_14_we_are_his.htm">March 14. "We are his Workmanship" (Eph. Ii. 10). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"We are His workmanship" (Eph. ii. 10). Christ sends us to serve Him, not in our own strength, but in His resources and might. "We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them." We do not have to prepare them; but to wear them as garments, made to order for every occasion of our life. We must receive them by faith and go forth in His work, believing that He is with us, and in us, as our all sufficiency for wisdom, faith, love, prayer, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/march_14_we_are_his.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/july_2_and_hath_raised.htm">July 2. "And Hath Raised us up Together" (Eph. Ii. 6). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"And hath raised us up together" (Eph. ii. 6). Ascension is more than resurrection. Much is said of it in the New Testament. Christ riseth above all things. We see Him in the very act of ascending as we do not in the actual resurrection, as, with hands and lips engaged in blessing, He gently parts from their side, so simply, so unostentatiously, with so little imposing ceremony as to make heaven so near to our common life that we can just whisper through. And we, too, must ascend, even here. "If <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/july_2_and_hath_raised.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_1_that_in_the.htm">October 1. "That in the Ages to Come He Might Show the Exceeding Riches of his Grace" (Eph. Ii. 7). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace" (Eph. ii. 7). Christ's great purpose for His people is to train them up to know the hope of their calling, and the riches of the glory of their inheritance and what the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe. Let us prove, in all our varied walks of life, and scenes of conflict, the fulness of His power and grace and thus shall we know "In the ages to come the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness to <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_1_that_in_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/gods_workmanship_and_our_works.htm">God's Workmanship and Our Works</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.'--Eph. ii. 10. The metal is molten as it runs out of the blast furnace, but it soon cools and hardens. Paul's teaching about salvation by grace and by faith came in a hot stream from his heart, but to this generation his words are apt to sound coldly, and hardly theological. But they only need to be reflected upon in connection with our own experience, to become vivid and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/gods_workmanship_and_our_works.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/the_chief_corner-stone.htm"> 'The Chief Corner-Stone'</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the chief corner-stone.'--Eph. ii. 20 (R.V.). The Roman Empire had in Paul's time gathered into a great unity the Asiatics of Ephesus, the Greeks of Corinth, the Jews of Palestine, and men of many another race, but grand and imposing as that great unity was, it was to Paul a poor thing compared with the oneness of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Asiatics of Ephesus, Greeks of Corinth, Jews of Palestine and members of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/the_chief_corner-stone.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/the_riches_of_grace.htm"> 'The Riches of Grace'</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.'--Eph. ii. 7. One very striking characteristic of this epistle is its frequent reference to God's purposes, and what, for want of a better word, we must call His motives, in giving us Jesus Christ. The Apostle seems to rise even higher than his ordinary height, while he gazes up to the inaccessible light, and with calm certainty proclaims not only what God has done, but why He has done <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/the_riches_of_grace.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/salvation_grace_faith.htm">Salvation: Grace: Faith</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'By grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.'--Eph. ii. 8 (R.V.). Here are three of the key-words of the New Testament--'grace,' 'saved,' 'faith.' Once these terms were strange and new; now they are old and threadbare. Once they were like lava, glowing and cast up from the central depths; but it is a long while since the eruption, and the blocks have got cold, and the corners have been rubbed off them. I am afraid that some people, when they read <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/salvation_grace_faith.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/the_resurrection_of_dead_souls.htm">The Resurrection of Dead Souls</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ.'--Eph. ii. 4, 5. Scripture paints man as he is, in darker tints, and man as he may become, in brighter ones, than are elsewhere found. The range of this portrait painter's palette is from pitchiest black to most dazzling white, as of snow smitten by sunlight. Nowhere else are there such sad, stern words about the actualities of human nature; nowhere else such <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/the_resurrection_of_dead_souls.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_43_the_scripture_way.htm">The Scripture Way of Salvation</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Ye are saved through faith." Ephesians 2:8. 1. Nothing can be more intricate, complex, and hard to be understood, than religion, as it has been often described. And this is not only true concerning the religion of the Heathens, even many of the wisest of them, but concerning the religion of those also who were, in some sense, Christians; yea, and men of great name in the Christian world; men who seemed to be pillars thereof. Yet how easy to be understood, how plain and simple a thing, is the genuine <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_43_the_scripture_way.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Wesley—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons on Several Occasions</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_3_1857/spiritual_resurrection.htm">Spiritual Resurrection</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The apostle is here speaking, you will observe, of the church at Ephesus, and, indeed, of all those who were chosen in Christ Jesus, accepted in him, and redeemed with his blood; and he says of them, "You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins." What a solemn sight is presented to us by a dead body! When last evening trying to realize the thought, it utterly overcame me. The thought is overwhelming, that soon this body of mine must be a carnival for worms; that in and out of these <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_3_1857/spiritual_resurrection.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 3: 1857</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_37_1891/the_agreement_of_salvation_by.htm">The Agreement of Salvation by Grace with Walking in Good Works</a><br></span><span class="snippet">I shall call your attention to the near neighborhood of these two phrases, "Not of works," and "Created in Christ Jesus unto good works." The text reads with a singular sound; for it seems strange to the ear that good works should be negatived as the cause of salvation, and then should be spoken of as the great end of it. You may put it down among what the Puritans called "Orthodox Paradoxes," if you please; though it is hardly so difficult a matter as to deserve the name. Not long ago, I tried <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_37_1891/the_agreement_of_salvation_by.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 37: 1891</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/ephesians/2-11.htm">Ephesians 2:11 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/ephesians/2-11.htm">Ephesians 2:11 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/ephesians/2-11.htm">Ephesians 2:11 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/ephesians/2-11.htm">Ephesians 2:11 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/ephesians/2-11.htm">Ephesians 2:11 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/ephesians/2-11.htm">Ephesians 2:11 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/ephesians/2-11.htm">Ephesians 2:11 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ephesians/2-10.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ephesians 2:10"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ephesians 2:10" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ephesians/2-12.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ephesians 2:12"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ephesians 2:12" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/ephesians/2-11.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>