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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 />being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ephesians/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/ephesians/2.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner-stone,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ephesians/2.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ephesians/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/ephesians/2.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />You are a building which has been reared on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, the cornerstone being Christ Jesus Himself,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ephesians/2.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ephesians/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner -stone,<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/2-20.htm">Ephesians 2:20 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/ephesians/2-20.htm">Ephesians 2:20 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/ephesians/2-20.htm">Ephesians 2:20 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/ephesians/2-20.htm">Ephesians 2:20 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/ephesians/2-20.htm">Ephesians 2:20 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/ephesians/2-20.htm">Ephesians 2:20 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/ephesians/2-20.htm">Ephesians 2:20 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ephesians/2-19.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ephesians 2:19"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ephesians 2:19" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ephesians/2-21.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ephesians 2:21"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ephesians 2:21" /></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/2-20.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>