1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh "and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions —it is by grace you have been saved.6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.8 For it is 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 God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.11 Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (which is done in the body by human hands) —12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,15 by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace,16 and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God's people and also members of his household,20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord.22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

1 وانتم اذ كنتم امواتا بالذنوب والخطايا2 التي سلكتم فيها قبلا حسب دهر هذا العالم حسب رئيس سلطان الهواء الروح الذي يعمل الآن في ابناء المعصية3 الذين نحن ايضا جميعا تصرفنا قبلا بينهم في شهوات جسدنا عاملين مشيئات الجسد والافكار وكنا بالطبيعة ابناء الغضب كالباقين ايضا4 الله الذي هو غني في الرحمة من اجل محبته الكثيرة التي احبنا بها5 ونحن اموات بالخطايا احيانا مع المسيح. بالنعمة انتم مخلّصون.6 واقامنا معه واجلسنا معه في السماويات في المسيح يسوع7 ليظهر في الدهور الآتية غنى نعمته الفائق باللطف علينا في المسيح يسوع.8 لانكم بالنعمة مخلّصون بالايمان وذلك ليس منكم. هو عطية الله.9 ليس من اعمال كي لا يفتخر احد10 لاننا نحن عمله مخلوقين في المسيح يسوع لاعمال صالحة قد سبق الله فاعدها لكي نسلك فيها11 لذلك اذكروا انكم انتم الامم قبلا في الجسد المدعوين غرلة من المدعو ختانا مصنوعا باليد في الجسد12 انكم كنتم في ذلك الوقت بدون مسيح اجنبيين عن رعوية اسرائيل وغرباء عن عهود الموعد لا رجاء لكم وبلا اله في العالم.13 ولكن الآن في المسيح يسوع انتم الذين كنتم قبلا بعيدين صرتم قريبين بدم المسيح.14 لانه هو سلامنا الذي جعل الاثنين واحدا ونقض حائط السياج المتوسط15 اي العداوة. مبطلا بجسده ناموس الوصايا في فرائض لكي يخلق الاثنين في نفسه انسانا واحدا جديدا صانعا سلاما16 ويصالح الاثنين في جسد واحد مع الله بالصليب قاتلا العداوة به.17 فجاء وبشركم بسلام انتم البعيدين والقريبين.18 لان به لنا كلينا قدوما في روح واحد الى الآب.19 فلستم اذا بعد غرباء ونزلا بل رعية مع القديسين واهل بيت الله20 مبنيين على اساس الرسل والانبياء ويسوع المسيح نفسه حجر الزاوية21 الذي فيه كل البناء مركبا معا ينمو هيكلا مقدسا في الرب.22 الذي فيه انتم ايضا مبنيون معا مسكنا للّه في الروح