Ephesians 2 (NET)

Ephesians 2:1¹And although you were dead in your offenses and sins,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 2:13Eph 2:5-6Col 3:1-4Eph 4:18Rom 8:2John 5:21John 11:25-261 John 3:14John 14:6Eph 5:14

Ephesians 2:2²in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the domain of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 6:121 John 5:19Eph 2:3Col 3:6-7John 12:31Eph 5:6John 8:441 Cor 6:11Eph 4:222 Cor 4:4

Ephesians 2:3³among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Titus 3:3Eph 4:22Gal 5:16-241 Pet 1:14Rom 13:141 Cor 6:9-11Ps 51:5Rom 6:121 John 2:16Eph 2:2

Ephesians 2:4⁴But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 1:3Eph 1:7Ps 86:15Titus 3:4-7Rom 5:8Eph 2:7Ps 145:8Rom 10:12John 3:14-171 Tim 1:14

Ephesians 2:5⁵even though we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you are saved! —Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 3:24Eph 2:8Rom 5:10Rom 5:8Acts 15:11Eph 2:1Rom 8:2Titus 2:11Eph 5:14Rom 4:16

Ephesians 2:6⁶and he raised us up together with him and seated us together with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 3:1-3Eph 1:3Rom 6:4-5Col 2:12-13John 17:21-26John 12:26Rev 3:20-21Eph 1:19-20John 14:3Luke 22:29-30

Ephesians 2:7⁷to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 1:16-17Titus 3:42 Thess 1:12Eph 2:4Isa 60:15Rev 5:9-14Eph 3:5Ps 106:481 Pet 1:12Eph 3:21

Ephesians 2:8⁸For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 3:22-26Eph 2:5Rom 4:16John 1:12-13Rom 10:17Rom 10:9-10Acts 16:31Jas 1:16-18John 6:37John 5:24

Ephesians 2:9⁹it is not from works, so that no one can boast.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 1:9Rom 11:6Titus 3:3-5Rom 9:161 Cor 1:29-31Rom 3:20Rom 4:2Rom 9:11Rom 3:27-28

Ephesians 2:10¹⁰For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 2:13Col 1:10Heb 13:212 Cor 5:172 Cor 9:8Eph 4:24Phil 1:62 Tim 3:17Eph 4:12 Tim 2:21

Ephesians 2:11¹¹Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh—who are called “uncircumcision” by the so-called “circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 2:11Col 2:13Col 3:11Rom 2:28-29Gal 6:121 Cor 12:21 Cor 6:11Col 1:21Jer 9:25-26Phil 3:3

Ephesians 2:12¹²that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 4:8Col 1:211 Pet 1:3Jer 31:31-341 Thess 4:13Eph 4:18Ezek 37:26John 15:5Heb 6:181 Thess 4:5

Ephesians 2:13¹³But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 2:39Col 1:20-22Col 1:13-14Eph 2:19-221 Cor 6:11Isa 57:19Isa 43:6Rom 3:23-30Acts 26:18Eph 2:12

Ephesians 2:14¹⁴For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:28Col 3:11Col 3:15Eph 2:151 Cor 12:12-13Col 1:20Col 2:10-14Isa 9:6-7Rom 5:1Acts 10:36

Ephesians 2:15¹⁵when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 2:14Gal 3:10Col 1:21-22Col 2:20Col 3:10Gal 3:28Gal 6:15Heb 8:132 Cor 5:17Eph 4:16

Ephesians 2:16¹⁶and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 1:20-22Rom 5:102 Cor 5:18-21Col 2:141 Pet 4:1-2Gal 2:20Eph 2:15Rom 6:6Rom 8:3Rom 8:7

Ephesians 2:17¹⁷And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 57:19-21Acts 10:36Rom 5:1Acts 2:39Deut 4:7Eph 2:13-14Ps 148:14Zech 9:102 Cor 5:20Isa 52:7

Ephesians 2:18¹⁸so that through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 12:13Eph 3:12Rom 5:2Eph 4:4John 14:6Heb 10:19-20John 10:9Heb 4:15-16John 10:7Col 1:12

Ephesians 2:19¹⁹So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 3:201 John 3:1Gal 6:10Gal 3:26-28Eph 2:12Eph 3:6Heb 11:13Heb 12:22-24Rev 21:12-26Gal 4:26-31

Ephesians 2:20²⁰because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:4-5Isa 28:161 Pet 2:7-8Ps 118:22Eph 4:11-13Matt 16:18Acts 4:11-12Rev 21:141 Cor 3:9-11Mark 12:10-11

Ephesians 2:21²¹In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 3:16-171 Cor 3:92 Cor 6:16Eph 4:13-161 Kgs 6:7Heb 3:3-4Exod 26:1-37Ezek 42:12Ps 93:5Ezek 40:1-42

Ephesians 2:22²²in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:4-51 Cor 3:161 John 4:16John 17:21-231 John 4:13John 14:17-231 Cor 6:19Rom 8:9-111 John 3:242 Cor 6:16