Ephesians 2:8-22

English Standard Version

⁸For ^(A)by grace you have been saved ^(B)through faith. And this is ^(C)not your own doing; ^(D)it is the gift of God, ⁹^(E)not a result of works, ^(F)so that no one may boast. ¹⁰For ^(G)we are his workmanship, ^(H)created in Christ Jesus ^(I)for good works, ^(J)which God prepared beforehand, ^(K)that we should walk in them.

One in Christ

¹¹Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called ^(L)the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— ¹²remember ^(M)that you were at that time separated from Christ, ^(N)alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to ^(O)the covenants of promise, ^(P)having no hope and without God in the world. ¹³But now in Christ Jesus you who once were ^(Q)far off have been brought near ^(R)by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴For ^(S)he himself is our peace, ^(T)who has made us both one and has broken down ^(U)in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility ¹⁵by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ^(V)ordinances, that he might create in himself one ^(W)new man in place of the two, so making peace, ¹⁶and might ^(X)reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. ¹⁷And he came and ^(Y)preached peace to you who were ^(Z)far off and peace to those who were ^(AA)near. ¹⁸For ^(AB)through him we both have ^(AC)access in ^(AD)one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹So then you are no longer ^(AE)strangers and aliens,^[a] but you are ^(AF)fellow citizens with the saints and ^(AG)members of the household of God, ²⁰^(AH)built on the foundation of the ^(AI)apostles and prophets, ^(AJ)Christ Jesus himself being ^(AK)the cornerstone, ²¹^(AL)in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into ^(AM)a holy temple in the Lord. ²²In him ^(AN)you also are being built together ^(AO)into a dwelling place for God by^[b] the Spirit.