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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Ephesians 2 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ephesians/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ephesians/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > Ephesians 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ephesians/1.htm" title="Ephesians 1">◄</a> Ephesians 2 <a href="../ephesians/3.htm" title="Ephesians 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/ephesians/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">God Has Brought Us from Death to Life</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>You used to be dead because of your offenses and sins <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>that you once practiced as you lived according to the ways of this present world and according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now active in those who are disobedient.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:2 Lit. the sons of disobedience">a</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Indeed, all of us once behaved like<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:3 Or lived among">b</a></span> them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we were destined for<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:3 Lit. were children of">c</a></span> wrath, just like everyone else. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love for us<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:4 Lit. love with which he loved us">d</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>even when we were dead because of our offenses, made us alive together with<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:5 Other mss. read in">e</a></span> the Messiah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:5 Or Christ">f</a></span> (by grace you have been saved), <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavenly realm in the Messiah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:6 Or Christ">g</a></span> Jesus, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>so that in the coming ages he might display the limitless riches of his grace that comes to us through his kindness in the Messiah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:7 Or Christ">h</a></span> Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For by such grace you have been saved through faith. This does not come from you; it is the gift of God <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and not the result of actions, to put a stop to all boasting.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:9 Lit. works, lest anyone boast">i</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For we are God’s<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:10 Lit. his">j</a></span> masterpiece,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:10 Or workmanship">k</a></span> created in the Messiah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:10 Or Christ">l</a></span> Jesus to perform good actions that God prepared long ago to be our way of life.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:10 Lit. so that we might walk in them">m</a></span> </p> <p class="heading">All Believers are One in the Messiah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So then, remember that at one time you gentiles by birth<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:11 Lit. in the flesh">n</a></span> were called “the uncircumcised” by those who called themselves “the circumcised.” They underwent physical circumcision done by human hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>At that time you were without the Messiah,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:12 Or Christ">o</a></span> excluded from citizenship in Israel,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:12 Or from the commonwealth of Israel">p</a></span> and strangers to the covenants of promise. You had no hope and were in the world without God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But now, in union with the Messiah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:13 Or Christ">q</a></span> Jesus, you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:13 Or Christ">r</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For it is he who is our peace. Through his mortality<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:14 Lit. flesh">s</a></span> he made both groups one by tearing down the wall of hostility that divided them.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:14 Lit. the dividing wall of hostility">t</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He rendered the Law inoperative, along with its commandments and regulations, thus creating in himself one new humanity from the two, thereby making peace, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and reconciling both groups to God in one body through the cross, on which he eliminated the hostility. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He came and proclaimed peace for you who were far away and for you who were near. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For through him, both of us<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:18 i.e. both Jews and gentiles">u</a></span> have access to the Father by one Spirit. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>That is why you are no longer strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, the Messiah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:20 Or Christ">v</a></span> Jesus himself being the cornerstone.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:20 Or capstone">w</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>In union with him the whole building is joined together and rises into a holy sanctuary for the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You, too, are being built in him, along with the others, into a place for God’s Spirit to dwell.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 2:2 Lit. <i>the sons of disobedience</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 2:3 Or <i>lived among</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 2:3 Lit. <i>were children of</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 2:4 Lit. <i>love with which he loved us</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 2:5 Other mss. read <i>in</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 2:5 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 2:6 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 2:7 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 2:9 Lit. <i>works, lest anyone boast</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 2:10 Lit. <i>his</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 2:10 Or <i>workmanship</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 2:10 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 2:10 Lit. <i>so that we might walk in them</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 2:11 Lit. <i>in the flesh</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 2:12 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 2:12 Or <i>from the commonwealth of Israel</i><br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 2:13 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 2:13 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">s</span> 2:14 Lit. <i>flesh</i><br /><span class="fnb">t</span> 2:14 Lit. <i>the dividing wall of hostility</i><br /><span class="fnb">u</span> 2:18 i.e. both Jews and gentiles<br /><span class="fnb">v</span> 2:20 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">w</span> 2:20 Or <i>capstone</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible 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