But
God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,…hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye
are saved;)
And
hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus:
...
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God
hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
…ye were without Christ, being aliens from the
commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no
hope, and without God in the world:
But
now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of
Christ.
For
he is our peace, who hath made both [us and
Him]
one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us and God];
Having
abolished in his flesh the enmity [we have with
God]…for
to make in himself of twain [us and Him] one new man, so
making peace [with God];
...And
that he might reconcile both [Himself and us] unto God in one
body by the cross, having slain the enmity [between us and God] thereby:
For
through him we... have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Now
therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the
saints, and of the household of God;
And
are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself
being the chief corner stone;
In
whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the
Lord:
In
whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
