WE WERE DEAD IN OUR TRANSGRESSIONS AND SINS

 

As for You, You were Dead

In your Transgressions and Sins,

2 In which You Used to Live

When You Followed the Ways of this World

AND THE RULER OF THE KINGDOM OF THE AIR,

THE SPIRIT WHO IS NOW AT WORK IN THOSE

WHO ARE DISOBEDIENT.

3 All of Us also Lived Among them at One Time,

Gratifying the Cravings of Our Sinful Nature

And Following its Desires and Thoughts.

LIKE THE REST,

WE WERE BY NATURE OBJECTS OF WRATH.

4 But because of His Great Love for Us,

God, Who is Rich in Mercy,

5 MADE US ALIVE WITH CHRIST

Even when We were Dead in Transgressions--

IT IS BY GRACE YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED.

6 And God Raised Us up with Christ

And Seated Us with Him

In the Heavenly Realms In Christ Jesus,

7 In order that in the Coming Ages

He Might Show the Incomparable Riches

Of His Grace,

Expressed in His Kindness to Us

In Christ Jesus.

8 FOR IT IS BY GRACE YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED,

THROUGH FAITH--

And this Not from Yourselves,

IT IS A GIFT OF GOD--

9 Not by Works,

So that No One can Boast.

10 For We are God’s Workmanship,

Created In Christ Jesus

TO DO GOOD WORKS,

Which God Prepared in Advance

FOR US TO DO.

(Ephesians 2:1-10)