1 En julle het Hy lewend gemaak, wat dood was deur die misdade en die sondes

2 waarin julle tevore gewandel het volgens die loop van hierdie wêreld, volgens die owerste van die mag van die lug, van die gees wat nou in die kinders van die ongehoorsaamheid werk,

3 onder wie ons almal ook vroeër gewandel het in die begeerlikhede van ons vlees toe ons die wil van die vlees en van die sinne gedoen het; en ons was van nature kinders van die toorn net soos ook die ander.

4 Maar God, wat ryk is in barmhartigheid, het ons deur sy grote liefde waarmee Hy ons liefgehad het,

5 ook toe ons dood was deur die misdade, lewend gemaak saam met Christus -- uit genade is julle gered --

6 en saam opgewek en saam laat sit in die hemele in Christus Jesus,

7 sodat Hy in die eeue wat kom, kan betoon die uitnemende rykdom van sy genade in goedertierenheid oor ons in Christus Jesus.

8 Want uit genade is julle gered, deur die geloof, en dit nie uit julleself nie: dit is die gawe van God;

9 nie uit die werke nie, sodat niemand mag roem nie.

10 Want ons is sy maaksel, geskape in Christus Jesus tot goeie werke wat God voorberei het, sodat ons daarin kan wandel.

11 Daarom, onthou dat julle wat vroeër heidene in die vlees was en onbesnedenes genoem word deur die sogenaamde besnydenis wat in die vlees met hande verrig word,

12 dat julle in die tyd sonder Christus was, vervreemd van die burgerskap van Israel en vreemdelinge ten aansien van die verbonde van die belofte, sonder hoop en sonder God in die wêreld.

13 Maar nou in Christus Jesus het julle wat vroeër ver was, naby gekom deur die bloed van Christus.

14 Want Hy is ons vrede, Hy wat albei een gemaak en die middelmuur van skeiding afgebreek het

15 deurdat Hy in sy vlees die vyandskap tot niet gemaak het, naamlik die wet van gebooie wat in insettinge bestaan; sodat Hy, deur vrede te maak, die twee in Homself tot een nuwe mens kon skep

16 en albei in een liggaam met God kon versoen deur die kruis, nadat Hy daaraan die vyandskap doodgemaak het.

17 En Hy het die evangelie van vrede kom verkondig aan julle wat ver was en aan die wat naby was;

18 want deur Hom het ons albei die toegang deur een Gees tot die Vader.

19 So is julle dan nie meer vreemdelinge en bywoners nie, maar medeburgers van die heiliges en huisgenote van God,

20 gebou op die fondament van die apostels en profete, terwyl Jesus Christus self die hoeksteen is,

21 in wie die hele gebou, goed saamgevoeg, verrys tot 'n heilige tempel in die Here,

22 in wie julle ook saam opgebou word tot 'n woning van God in die Gees.

1 And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

2 In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

3 Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

4 But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

5 Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),

6 So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;

7 That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus:

8 Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

9 Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.

10 For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

11 For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

12 That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.

13 But now in Christ Jesus you who at one time were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

14 For he is our peace, who has made the two into one, and by whom the middle wall of division has been broken down,

15 Having in his flesh put an end to that which made the division between us, even the law with its rules and orders, so that he might make in himself, of the two, one new man, so making peace;

16 And that the two might come into agreement with God in one body through the cross, so putting an end to that division.

17 And he came preaching peace to you who were far off, and to those who were near;

18 Because through him the two of us are able to come near in one Spirit to the Father.

19 So then you are no longer as those who have no part or place in the kingdom of God, but you are numbered among the saints, and of the family of God,

20 Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,

21 In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;

22 In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.