Ephesians Chapter 2 (New Translation JWET)

Paul’s Letter to those of Magic City

Chapter 2

¹Even you, being dead ones, because of your transgressions and failures, ²in these you once walked in accordance to the course of this world (opposite the Ruler with the authority from the clouds-air, the Spirit now being effective with the sons of the disobedience) ³with whom we all also lived (by the desire for what is forbidden our flesh) we were carrying out the wishes of the flesh and the intellect, and we were made wrath's natural offspring even as the rest.

⁴But the God Opulent, being surrounded by mercy owing to His great love which He entreated us, ⁵and we (being dead ones because of the trespasses) He endowed with life together, by the Anointed One, by grace-kindness having been saved ⁶and He raised together and He made to sit down together in the exalted places with Anointed Savior. ⁷There in that place He might point (by the generations to the ones having been at hand) to the transcending opulence of His pleasure with kindness on us by Anointed Savior. ⁸For by the kindness you are saved by reason of a pledge of good faith and not from you, from God the gift ⁹not out of works (that not any one might have boasted). ¹⁰For Him we have been a work, having been brought into being by Anointed Savior through valiant works which God prepared beforehand, that by them we may have lived. ¹¹On that account you must remember that once you the foreigners in flesh (those being called uncircumcised by those called the circumcised in flesh by hand) ¹²for which cause you were separated from the ideal world of Anointed One (being alienated from the conditions and rights of a citizen of Israel, also alien from the covenant of the summons) not having an object of hope, even abandoned of God with the world, ¹³but now (by Anointed Savior) you, the ones once being remote, you were brought to kinship by the blood of the Anointed One. ¹⁴For He Himself is our treaty of peace having made the both into one, also the party wall having been dissolved (the feud) by His flesh ¹⁵(the commands' law with judgments rendered, having been left idle) there the two might have transformed (for Him) into one nobility giving rise to peace. ¹⁶Also, He might reconcile both into one whole body-community for God because of the crucifixion (He having killed the hatred by Himself). ¹⁷And having come, He himself brought good news (a treaty of peace) to you (the remotest parts) also a treaty of peace to those near at hand, ¹⁸for inasmuch as (because of His favor) we are having the access (the ones all together by one Spirit) to the Father.

¹⁹Thus, as I was saying, you are no longer foreigners and sojourners in another's family-house, but you are citizens among the ones devoted to God even among the family-house of God ²⁰(being built on the foundation of the messengers and prophets) existing because of its corner-stone Anointed Savior. ²¹With Him, a whole structure being fitted together (taking the augmentation) into a holy temple by Lord-Master, ²²by whom also you were built together into a dwelling place of God (in Spirit).