1 and *you*, being dead in your offences and sins-
2 in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:
3 among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:
4 but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 (we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)
6 and has raised {us} up together, and has made {us} sit down together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,
7 that he might display in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.
8 For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is God's gift:
9 not on the principle of works, that no one might boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them.
11 Wherefore remember that *ye*, once nations in {the} flesh, who {are} called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in {the} flesh done with the hand;
12 that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13 but now in Christ Jesus *ye* who once were afar off are become nigh by the blood of the Christ.
14 For *he* is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of enclosure,
15 having annulled the enmity in his flesh, the law of commandments in ordinances, that he might form the two in himself into one new man, making peace;
16 and might reconcile both in one body to God by the cross, having by it slain the enmity;
17 and, coming, he has preached the glad tidings of peace to you who {were} afar off, and {the glad tidings of} peace to those {who were} nigh.
18 For through him we have both access by one Spirit to the Father.
19 So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,
20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner-stone,
21 in whom all {the} building fitted together increases to a holy temple in the Lord;
22 in whom *ye* also are built together for a habitation of God in {the} Spirit.
1 你们因着自己的过犯和罪恶， 原是死的。
2 那时你们在过犯和罪恶中行事为人， 随着时代的潮流， 也服从空中掌权的首领， 就是现今在悖逆的人身上运行的灵。
3 我们从前也都和他们在一起， 放纵肉体的私欲， 随着肉体和心意所喜好的去行； 我们与别人一样， 生来都是可怒的儿女。
4 然而 神满有怜悯， 因着他爱我们的大爱，
5 就在我们因过犯死了的时候， 使我们与基督一同活过来， （你们得救是靠着恩典， ）
6 又使我们在基督耶稣里， 与他一同复活， 一同坐在天上，
7 为的是要在将来的世代中， 显明他在基督耶稣里赐给我们的恩典， 是多么的丰盛。
8 你们得救是靠着恩典， 借着信心。这不是出于自己， 而是 神所赐的；
9 这也不是出于行为， 免得有人自夸。
10 我们原是 神所作成的， 是在基督耶稣里创造的， 为的是要我们行各样的善事， 就是 神预先所安排的。
11 你们应当记得， 你们从前按肉体来说是外族人； 那些所谓在肉体上受过人手所行的割礼的人， 称你们为未受割礼的。
12 那时， 你们是在基督以外， 与以色列国无分， 在带有应许的约上是外人， 在世上没有盼望， 没有 神。
13 你们从前远离的人， 现今在基督耶稣里， 靠着他的血已经可以亲近了。
14 基督就是我们的和平： 他使双方合而为一， 拆毁了隔在中间的墙， 就是以自己的身体除掉双方的仇恨，
15 并且废掉了律法的规条， 使两者在他里面成为一个新人， 这样就缔造了和平。
16 基督既然借着十字架消灭了仇恨， 就借着十字架使双方与 神和好， 成为一体，
17 并且他来把和平的福音传给你们在远处的人， 也给在近处的人。
18 我们双方都借着他， 在同一位圣灵里， 可以进到父面前。
19 这样看来， 你们不再是外人和客旅， 而是与圣徒一同作国民， 是 神家里的人了，
20 并且建造在使徒和先知的根基上， 基督耶稣自己就是奠基石，
21 整座建筑都靠着他连接配合， 渐渐增长成为在主里面的圣所。
22 你们在他里面也一同被建造， 成为 神借着圣灵居住的所在。