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Ephesians 2 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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Made Alive in Christ

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And you [He made alive when you] were [spiritually] dead and separated from Him because of your transgressions and sins,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:2 - in which you once walked. You were following the ways of this world [influenced by this present age], in accordance with the prince of the power of the air (Satan), the spirit who is now at work in the disobedient [the unbelieving, who fight against the purposes of God].

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:3 - Among these [unbelievers] we all once lived in the passions of our flesh [our behavior governed by the sinful self], indulging the desires of [fn]human nature [without the Holy Spirit] and [the impulses] of the [sinful] mind. We were, by nature, children [under the sentence] of [God’s] wrath, just like the rest [of mankind].

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:4 - But God, being [so very] rich in mercy, because of His great and wonderful love with which He loved us,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:5 - even when we were [spiritually] dead and separated from Him because of our sins, He made us [spiritually] alive together with Christ (for by His grace—His undeserved favor and mercy—you have been saved from God’s judgment).

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:6 - And He raised us up together with Him [when we believed], and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, [because we are] in Christ Jesus,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:7 - [and He did this] so that in the ages to come He might [clearly] show the immeasurable and unsurpassed riches of His grace in [His] kindness toward us in Christ Jesus [by providing for our redemption].

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:8 - For it is by grace [God’s remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ] that you have been saved [actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life] through faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [not through your own effort], but it is the [undeserved, gracious] gift of God;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:9 - not as a result of [your] works [nor your attempts to keep the Law], so that no one will [be able to] boast or take credit in any way [for his salvation].

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:10 - For we are His workmanship [His own master work, a work of art], created in Christ Jesus [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be used] for good works, which God prepared [for us] beforehand [taking paths which He set], so that we would walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us].

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Therefore, remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, who are called “Uncircumcision” by those who called themselves “Circumcision,” [itself a mere mark] which is made in the flesh by human hands—

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:12 - remember that at that time you were separated from Christ [excluded from any relationship with Him], alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise [with no share in the sacred Messianic promise and without knowledge of God’s agreements], having no hope [in His promise] and [living] in the world without God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:13 - But now [at this very moment] in Christ Jesus you who once were [so very] far away [from God] have been brought near [fn]by the blood of Christ.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:14 - For He Himself is our peace and our bond of unity. He who made both groups—[Jews and Gentiles]—into one body and broke down the barrier, the dividing wall [of spiritual antagonism between us],

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:15 - by abolishing in His [own crucified] flesh the hostility caused by the Law with its commandments contained in ordinances [which He satisfied]; so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thereby establishing peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:16 - And [that He] might reconcile them both [Jew and Gentile, united] in one body to God through the cross, thereby putting to death the hostility.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:17 - AND HE CAME AND PREACHED THE GOOD NEWS OF PEACE TO YOU [Gentiles] WHO WERE FAR AWAY, AND PEACE TO THOSE [Jews] WHO WERE NEAR.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:18 - For it is through Him that we both have a [direct] way of approach in one Spirit to the Father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:19 - So then you are no longer strangers and aliens [outsiders without rights of citizenship], but you are fellow citizens with the saints (God’s people), and are [members] of God’s household,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:20 - having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the [chief] Cornerstone,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:21 - in whom the whole structure is joined together, and it continues [to increase] growing into a holy temple in the Lord [a sanctuary dedicated, set apart, and sacred to the presence of the Lord].

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:22 - In Him [and in fellowship with one another] you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
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