Ephesians 2

1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

1 你们从前死在过犯和罪恶之中。

2 in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

2 那时，你们随从今世的风俗，顺服在空中掌权的魔鬼，就是如今在一切悖逆上帝之人心中运行的邪灵。

3 All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

3 我们以前也在他们当中随从本性的欲望，放纵肉体和心中的私欲，与其他人一样生来就是惹上帝发怒的人。

4 But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

4 然而上帝有丰富的怜悯，祂深爱我们，

5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

5 尽管我们死在过犯之中，祂仍然使我们与基督一同活了过来。你们得救是因为上帝的恩典。

6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

6 在基督耶稣里，上帝使我们与基督一同复活，一同坐在天上，

7 in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

7 好借着祂在基督耶稣里向我们所施的恩慈，向后世显明祂无比丰富的恩典。

8 For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

8 你们得救是靠恩典，凭信心。这不是出于你们自己，而是上帝的礼物；

9 not by works, so that no one can boast.

9 也不是由于你们的行为，以免有人自夸。

10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

10 我们是上帝的杰作，是在基督耶稣里创造的，为要完成上帝预先安排给我们的美好工作。

11 Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—

11 因此，你们要记住，从前按照肉体来说你们是外族人，那些肉体上受过人手所行割礼的以色列人，称你们为“没有受过割礼的”。

12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

12 那时，你们与基督无关，也不是以色列人，在上帝应许的诸约上是局外人，你们活在世上没有盼望，没有上帝。

13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

13 但你们这些从前远离上帝的人，如今在基督耶稣里，靠着祂所流的血已经被带到上帝面前。

14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility

14 因为基督耶稣亲自给我们带来了和平，用自己的身体拆毁了以色列人和外族人之间充满敌意的隔墙，使双方合而为一，

15 by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

15 并废除了以诫命和规条为内容的律法制度。祂这样做是为了在自己里面把双方造成一个新人，成就和平，

16 and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He put to death their hostility.

16 并借着十字架消灭彼此间的敌意，使双方借着一个身体与上帝和好。

17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.

17 祂来传扬这平安的福音给你们这些离上帝很远的外族人，也给我们这些离上帝很近的以色列人。

18 For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

18 我们双方都是靠着祂在同一位圣灵的引导下来到父上帝面前。

19 Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

19 因此，你们不再是外人或过客，你们与众圣徒一样是天国的子民，是上帝家里的人了。

20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

20 你们已被建立在众使徒和先知们的根基上，基督耶稣自己是房角石。

21 In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

21 整座建筑的各部分都靠祂连接在一起，逐渐成为主的圣殿。

22 And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.

22 你们也靠着祂被建造在一起，成为上帝借着圣灵居住的地方。