Ephesians 2

1You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,Cross-references: Matt 8:22 · Luke 15:24 · Luke 15:32 · John 5:21 · John 5:25 · John 10:10 · +14 more

2in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.Cross-references: Job 1:7 · Job 1:16 · Job 1:19 · Job 31:7 · Ps 17:14 · Isa 30:1 · +49 more

3We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.Cross-references: Gen 5:3 · Gen 6:5 · Gen 8:21 · Job 14:4 · Job 15:14 · Job 25:4 · +42 more

4But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,Cross-references: Ex 33:19 · Ex 34:6 · Deut 7:7 · Deut 9:5 · Neh 9:17 · Ps 51:1 · +27 more

5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—Cross-references: John 5:21 · John 6:63 · Acts 15:11 · Rom 3:24 · Rom 4:16 · Rom 5:6 · +12 more

6and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,Cross-references: Matt 26:29 · Luke 12:37 · Luke 22:29 · John 12:26 · John 14:3 · John 17:21 · +7 more

7that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;Cross-references: Ps 41:13 · Ps 106:48 · Isa 60:15 · Eph 2:4 · Eph 3:5 · Eph 3:21 · +5 more

8for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,Cross-references: Matt 16:17 · Mark 16:16 · Luke 7:50 · John 1:12 · John 3:14 · John 3:36 · +30 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

9not of works, that no one would boast.Cross-references: Rom 3:20 · Rom 3:27 · Rom 4:2 · Rom 9:11 · Rom 9:16 · Rom 11:6 · +3 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.Cross-references: Deut 5:33 · Deut 32:6 · Ps 51:10 · Ps 81:13 · Ps 100:3 · Ps 119:3 · +47 more

11Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands),Cross-references: Deut 5:15 · Deut 8:2 · Deut 9:7 · Deut 15:15 · Deut 16:12 · 1Sam 17:26 · +18 more

12that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.Cross-references: Gen 15:18 · Gen 17:7 · Ex 24:3 · Num 18:19 · 2Chr 15:3 · Ezra 4:3 · +39 more

13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.Cross-references: Ps 22:7 · Ps 73:27 · Isa 11:10 · Isa 24:15 · Isa 43:6 · Isa 49:12 · +29 more

14For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,Cross-references: Esth 3:8 · Isa 9:6 · Isa 19:24 · Ezek 34:24 · Ezek 37:19 · Mic 5:5 · +21 more

15having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,Cross-references: 2Cor 5:17 · Gal 3:10 · Gal 3:28 · Gal 6:15 · Eph 4:16 · Col 1:21 · +9 more

16and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it.Cross-references: Rom 5:10 · Rom 6:6 · Rom 8:3 · Rom 8:7 · 2Cor 5:18 · Gal 2:20 · +4 more

17He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.Cross-references: Deut 4:7 · Ps 75:1 · Ps 76:1 · Ps 85:10 · Ps 147:19 · Ps 148:14 · +13 more

18For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.Cross-references: Zech 12:10 · Matt 28:19 · John 4:21 · John 10:7 · John 10:9 · John 14:6 · +20 more

19So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,Cross-references: Matt 10:25 · Gal 3:26 · Gal 4:26 · Gal 6:10 · Eph 2:12 · Eph 3:6 · +6 more

20being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;Cross-references: Ps 118:22 · Isa 28:16 · Matt 16:18 · Matt 21:42 · Mark 12:10 · Luke 20:17 · +8 more

21in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;Cross-references: Ex 26:1 · 1Ki 6:7 · Ps 93:5 · Ezek 40:1 · Ezek 42:12 · 1Cor 3:9 · +4 more

22in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.Cross-references: John 14:17 · John 17:21 · Rom 8:9 · 1Cor 3:16 · 1Cor 6:19 · 2Cor 6:16 · +5 more