1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience. 3 We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus; 8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, that no one would boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision" (in the flesh, made by hands), 12 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace, 16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it. 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God, 20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; 21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

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.