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<span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>not of works, that no one would boast. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them. </p> <p class="hdg">One in Christ</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. </p> <p class="hdg">A Temple in the Lord</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. 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