以弗所书 2

出死入生

1 你们因着自己的过犯和罪孽，原是死的；2 在其中，你们从前行事为人，是顺着这世界的潮流，顺着那空中势力的掌权者，就是现今在那些不信从的儿女里面做工的灵。3 我们从前也都生活在他们中间，生活在自己肉体的欲望里，行肉体和意念所愿的事。我们正如其他人，生来也是震怒之下的儿女。4 不过神有丰富的怜悯，因着他爱我们的大爱，5 甚至当我们还死在过犯中的时候，就使我们与基督一同活过来——你们得救是藉着恩典！6 神又使我们在基督耶稣里，与基督一同复活、一同坐在天上，7 为了在将来的各世代中，在基督耶稣里，藉着对我们的仁慈，可以显出他那无限恩典的丰盛。8 你们得救确实是藉着恩典、藉着信，这不是出于你们自己，而是神的恩赐；9 也不是本于行为，免得有人自夸。10 实际上，我们是神的创作，是为了美善的工作在基督耶稣里被造成的；神早已预备好了美善工作，要我们在其中行事t。

在基督里合而为一

11 所以你们当记住：从前，你们照着肉体说是外邦人，被那些所谓“受割礼的”称为“没受割礼的”；割礼是人手在肉体上所行的。12 那时候，你们与基督无关；被排除在以色列国民之外；在那些所应许的诸约上是外人；在这世界上没有盼望、没有神。13 但如今，在基督耶稣里，你们这些从前在远处的人，藉着基督的血，已经被带到近处了。14 因为他自己是我们的和平，他使两者合而为一，废除了那隔在中间仇恨的墙；以自己的身体，15 废除了谕令中诫命的律法，为了把两者在他自己里面造成一个新人，缔造和平。16 他在十字架上既然消除了仇恨，就藉着十字架使两者得以在一个身体里，与神和好；17 并且来传和平t的福音给你们在远处的人，也给那些在近处的人。18 因为藉着基督，我们两者能够在同一位圣灵里，来到父面前。19 由此可见，你们不再是外人，或寄居的；你们是圣徒的同国之民，是神家里的人，20 并且被建造在使徒和先知的根基上，有基督耶稣自己为房角石。21 在基督耶稣里，全部建筑互相连接，渐渐成为在主里的圣殿；22 在他里面，你们也一同被建造，藉着圣灵成为神居住的地方。

Ephesians 2

New Life Individually

1 And although you weret deads in your transgressions and sins,2 in whichs you formerly livedts according to this world’s present path,ts according to the ruler of the kingdomt of the air, the ruler oft the spirits that is now energizingt the sons of disobedience,s

3 among whoms all of ust alsot formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wraths even as the rest…s
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,5 even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are saved!t –6 and he raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,7 to demonstrate in the coming agest the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness towardt us in Christ Jesus.8 For by grace you are savedt through faith,s and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;9 it is not fromt works, so that no one can boast.t

10 For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them.ts

New Life Corporately

11 Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh – who are called “uncircumcision” by the so-called “circumcision” that is performed on the bodyt by human hands –12 that you were at that time without the Messiah,t alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise,t having no hope and without God in the world.13 But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.ts14 For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into onet and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,15 when he nullifiedt in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new mant out of two,t thus making peace,16 and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.t17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near,18 so thatt through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.19 So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,20 because you have been builtt on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,s with Christ Jesus himself ast the cornerstone.t21 In himt the whole building,st being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.