Modern Literal Version
[Ephesians 2]

     ^2:1 Even you^* being dead in your^* trespasses and sins, ^2:2 in which you^* previously walked according to the age of this world {i.e. current things of this world}, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit which now is working in the sons of disobedience; ^2:3 among whom we also all conducted ourselves previously in the lusts of our flesh, practicing the wills of the flesh and of the perceptions and we were children of wrath by nature, even as the rest. ^2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his much love^*with which he loved^* us, ^2:5 even us being dead through our trespasses, he made^* us alive together with the Christ; you^* are saved in hisgrace. ^2:6 And God raised us up together with him and seated us together with him in the heavenlyplaces in Christ Jesus; ^2:7 in order that in the coming ages, he might show the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. ^2:8 For^* you^* are saved by the grace through the faith, and this thing, the gift of God, is not from you; ^2:9 not from works, in order that not anyone should boast. ^2:10 For^* we are his product, having been created in Christ Jesus upon good works, in which God prepared beforehand in order that we should walk in them.

     ^2:11 Hence remember^*, that previously you^*, (the Gentiles in the flesh), who are called^*uncircumcision by what is called^* circumcision, made by hands in the flesh; ^2:12 that you^* were separate from Christ at the time, having been alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers from the covenants^* of the promise, having no hope and were godless in the world. ^2:13But now in Christ Jesus you^* who are previously from afar became near to him in the blood of the Christ. ^2:14 For^* he is our peace, who made^*us both one and having torn-down the middle wall of the fence, ^2:15 having done-away-with the hostility in his flesh, which is the Law of commandments in decrees; in order that he might create in himself the two into one new man,thus making^* peace; ^2:16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility in himself. ^2:17 And after he came, he proclaimed the good-news of peace to you^* who were from afar and peace to those who were near; ^2:18 because through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. ^2:19 Therefore consequently^*, you^* are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you^* are fellow citizens of the holy-ones and members of thehousehold of God, ^2:20 having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ himself being the cornerstone; ^2:21 in whom all the building, fitly framed together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord; ^2:22 in whom you^* are also built together into a residence of God in the Spirit.

Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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