Eph 2
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And you [did he make alive,] when you were dead through your trespasses and sins,
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wherein you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince
of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience;
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among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the
flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of anger, even as the rest:--
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but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
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even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ
(by grace have you been saved),
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and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly [places], in
Christ Jesus:
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that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness
toward us in Christ Jesus:
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for by grace have you been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, [it is]
the gift of God;
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not of works, that no man should glory.
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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore
prepared that we should walk in them.
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Wherefore 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;
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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.
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But now in Christ Jesus you that once were far off are made nigh in the blood of Christ.
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For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,
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having abolished in the flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained]
in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, [so] making
peace;
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and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the
enmity thereby:
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and he came and preached peace to you that were far off, and peace to them that were
nigh:
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for through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
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So then you are no more strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow-citizens with
the saints, and of the household of God,
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being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself
being the chief corner stone;
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in whom each several building, fitly framed together, grows into a holy temple in
the Lord;
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in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.