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          DASV: Ephesians 2    

1 You were dead through your transgressions and sins,
2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit
that now works in the sons of disobedience,
3 among whom we also all once lived in the passion of our flesh,
indulging the desires of the flesh and mind, and were by
nature children under God’s wrath, just like the rest.
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love by
which he loved us,
5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive
together with Christ--by grace you have been saved.
6 He raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the
heavenly places, in Christ Jesus,
7 that in the ages to come he might display the exceeding riches
of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is
not from yourselves, it is the gift of God,
9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
10 For we are his work of art, created in Christ Jesus for
good works, which God prepared in advance that we should
walk in them.

11 For that reason remember, that once you Gentiles in the flesh,
who are called “Uncircumcised” by those who are called
“Circumcision,” in the flesh, made by human hands,
12 were at that time without Christ, alienated from the citzenship
of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise,
having no hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are brought
near by the blood of Christ.
14 For he is our peace, who made both groups into one, and
broke down the dividing wall of hostility,
15 having abolished in his flesh, the law of commandments and
ordinances, that he might create in himself from the two one
new man, thus making peace,
16 to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross,
having thereby slain the hostility.
17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off, and
peace to those who were near,
18 for through him we both have access in one Spirit to the
Father.
19 So then you are no more strangers and foreigners, but
fellow citizens with the saints, and members of the household
of God.
20 You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and
prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone.
21 In whom the whole building is joined together becoming
a holy temple in the Lord.
22 In whom also you are built together into a dwelling of
God by the Spirit.

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