Ephesians
2
1.
And you (all) being dead, in reference to your offences[1] and
sins,
2.
in which you formerly walked according to this worldly age,[2]
according to supernatural [ruling] power[3] over
the air[4],
the spirit that is now working among the
sons of disobedience.
3.among
whom, we also all formerly lived in our flesh’s lust doing fleshly desires and
impulsive[5] desires, and we were children, conditioned of
our nature, [6] destined for wrath[7] even
as the rest.
4.but
God being rich in mercy, because of His great love which He loved us
5.
and although we were dead in our offences[8],
made us alive together with Christ—by means of grace you have been saved—
6.
and raised you (all) and seated you
(all) in the heavenly placed in Christ Jesus
7.
in order that He might demonstrate in the age to come, the surpassing riches of
His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8. For by means of grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of
yourselves, it is a gift that comes from God.
9.
not (a gift that comes) from works, in order that no one may boast on themselves.
10
For we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, that God
prepared beforehand in order that we might walk in them.
11.
Therefore remember that once you (all), the nations in the flesh, those who are
called uncircumcised by the so called circumcision which is in the flesh made
by hands.
12.
that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth
of Israel, and strangers to the covenant of the promise, having no hope, and
without God in the world.
13.
But now in Christ Jesus, you (all) who once were far off, have been brought
near by [means] of the blood of Christ,
14.
for He Himself is our peace, the one who made both groups into one, and
destroyed the barrier fence that divides, namely the enmity, in His flesh
15.
by abolishing the law, the commandments contained within ordinances, so that He
might make in Himself the two into one man, thus making peace.
16.
and reconcile both into one body, to
God through the Cross, by putting to death the enmity.
17. and he preached the good news of peace to you
[who are] far away, and peace to you who are near.
18.
for through Him we have access to one Spirit of the father,
19.therefore,
you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the
holy ones, and are members of God’s house.
20.
(you) having been built on a foundation, the
apostles and the prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the corner stone,
21. in whom the building, joined together is
growing into a Holy Temple, in the Lord.
22.
in whom also you are being built
together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.
[2]
Attributive genitive
[3]
According to the Concise Greek-english dictionary of the new testament, ἐξουσία , ας f authority, right,
liberty; ability, capability; supernatural power; ruling power Barclay Moon
Newman, A Concise Greek-English
Dictionary of the New Testament. (Stuttgart, Germany: Deutsche
Bibelgesellschaft; United Bible Societies, 1993), 65
[4]
Genative of subordination
[5] Subjective genitive. According to BDAG “διάνοια”
is a “sense, impulse,
in a bad sense.”
[6] condition or circumstance as determined by
birth, (BDAG) 1069.
[7] ὀργῆς is a genitive of destination,
(Larkin, 30).
[8]
Transgressions or offences against God.
