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Even when we were dead by sins, hath quickened us together in Christ, by whose grace ye are saved,
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And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
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That he might show in the ages to come the exceeding riches of his grace through his kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
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For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God,
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Not of works, lest any man should boast himself.
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For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath ordained, that we should walk in them.
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Wherefore remember that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, and called uncircumcision of them, which are called circumcision in the flesh, made with hands,
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That ye were, I say, at that time without Christ, and were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and were strangers from the covenants of promise, and had no hope, and were without God in the world.
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But now in Christ Jesus, ye which once were far off, are made near by the blood of Christ.
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For he is our peace, which hath made of both one, and hath broken the stop of the partition wall,
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In abrogating through his flesh the hatred, that is, the Law of commandments which standeth in ordinances, for to make of twain one new man in himself, so making peace,
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And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by his cross, and slay hatred thereby,
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And came, and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were near.
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For through him we both have an entrance unto the Father by one Spirit.
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Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners: but citizens with the Saints, and of the household of God.
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And are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone,
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In whom all the building coupled together, groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord.
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In whom ye also are built together to be the habitation of God by the Spirit.
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1 He declareth that therefore he suffered many things of the Jews, 3 because he preached the mystery touching the salvation of the Gentiles, 8 at God’s commandment. 13 After he desired the Ephesians not to faint for his afflictions. 14 And for this cause he prayeth unto God, 18 that they may understand the great love of Christ. For this cause, I Paul am the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles.
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That is, that God by revelation hath showed this mystery unto me (as I wrote above in few words,
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Whereby when ye read, ye may know mine understanding in the mystery of Christ)
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Which in other ages was not opened unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy Apostles and Prophets by the Spirit,
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That the Gentiles should be inheritors also, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the Gospel,
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Whereof I am made a minister by the gift of the grace of God given unto me through the effectual working of his power.
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Even unto me the least of all Saints is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles, the unsearchable riches of Christ,
