CHAP. II.
All our good comes through
Christ. He is our peace.
1 And you, when you
were dead in your offences
and sins,
2 Wherein in time past
you walked according to the
course of this world, according
to the prince of the power
of this air, of the spirit that
now worketh on the children
of unbelief,
3 Among whom also we
all conversed in time past, in
the desires of our flesh, fulfilling
the will of the flesh and of
our thoughts, and were by nature
children of wrath even
as the rest:
4 But God, who is rich in
mercy, for his exceeding great
charity wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead
by sins, hath quickned us together
in Christ, (by whose
grace you are saved,)
6 And hath raised us up
together, and hath made us
sit together in the heavenly
-- --
places in Christ Jesus.
7 That he might shew in
the ages to come the abundant
riches of his grace, in
his bounty towards us in Christ
Jesus.
8 For by grace you are
saved through faith, and that
not of yourselves: for it is the
gift of God;
9 noteNot of works, that
no man may glory.
10 For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ
Jesus in good works, which
God hath prepared that we
should walk in them.
11 For which cause be
mindful that you being heretofore
gentiles in the flesh,
who are called uncircumcision
by that which is called
the circumcision in the flesh,
made by hands:
12 That you were at that
time without Christ, being
aliens from the conversation of
Israel, and strangers to the
covenants, having no hope of
the promise, and without God
in this world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus,
you, who some time
were afar off, are made nigh
by the blood of Christ.
14 For he is our peace,
who hath made both one, and
breaking down the middle
wall of partition, the enmities
in his flesh:
15 Making void the law
of commandments in decrees:
that he might make the two
in himself into one new man,
making peace,
16 And might reconcile
both to God in one body by
the cross, killing the enmities
in himself.
17 And coming he preached
peace to you that were afar
off, and peace to them
that were nigh.
18 For by him we have
both access in one Spirit to
the Father.
19 Now therefore you are
no more strangers and foreigners:
but you are fellow-citizens
with the saints, and the
domesticks of God,
20 Built upon the foundation
of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself
being the chief corner-stone:
21 In whom all the building
framed together, groweth
up into a holy temple in the
Lord:
22 In whom you also are
built together into a habitation
of God in the Spirit.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
